Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked him to kidnap Mossler, was so deflated by Foreman that part of his confused and contradictory testimony was stricken...
...schools or laws. In Austin, The Texas Student League for Responsible Sexual Freedom has 18 members so far, led by Senior Tom Maddux. He contends that limiting birth control pills to married women is "ridiculous," society's attitude toward homosexuality is "hypocritical," and laws against sodomy should be "stricken or radically changed...
...cover portrait is TIME'S most meaningful so far. Dean Rusk, an otherwise most handsome man, becomes a stricken symbol of the war in Viet Nam. The artist has drawn a picture of my own considered reservations about the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia...
Davis concedes that his church may not have done enough to encourage Negroes to join, and admits that National City should probably incorporate the poverty-stricken Twelfth Street Church. But he explains that church integration is fraught with subtle dangers, and must be done on a carefully controlled basis. "When you get to a certain percentage, you cannot allow any more, or else the church will become all another race," he says...
Fortnight ago he returned alone. The family soon learned why. From relations in Greece, a letter arrived, telling how Vlachos had lured his daughter-in-law into a Salonika hotel room and raped her. In the poverty-stricken hill towns of Greece, where whole families are sometimes forced to sleep beneath the same blanket, incest and related affairs are not unknown, nor do these proud but ignorant people turn to the law to deal with such delicate matters...