Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went to ludicrous lengths. The morning of November 1 the embassy reported to Washington a coup would occur that afternoon by that the military intelligence did not agree. The coup occurred. Later in the afternoon an officer called the embassy and asked that the military statement of dissent be stricken. As Halberstam notes in another context, Westerners are very sensitive about losing face...
Floods. President Johnson, along with Congressmen who represent the stricken areas, flew to the Midwest to see the damage for himself. He walked through the debris, examined the destruction, talked to survivors, assured them that the Government would help them get back on their feet again. When he left, his face reflected the same anguish that he had seen in the eyes of the tornado victims...
...good" Samaritan the hero of his parable: his Jewish listeners could think nothing but bad of the hated Samaritans, a heretical Jewish sect that claimed descent from Joseph and viewed Judeans as apostates. Samaritans then occupied one-third of Palestine, now they consist of only about 600 poverty-stricken people living in two decaying villages in Israel and Jordan...
...done out of the part she had created on Broadway, now present as a best-actress nominee for her Mary Poppins role. And there was Audrey Hepburn, the girl who got the movie part but no Oscar nomination. Audrey was there by Academy request to fill in for stroke-stricken Pat Neal and present the best-actor award. And there was Rex Harrison, a sure winner who had played with both Eliza Doolittles...
...bishops, rabbis, ministers, priests and nuns felt the call to march in Alabama with Martin Luther King. Last week, most of them were back home, wondering what happens next to "the spirit of Selma." Was it, in effect, something of a spiritual lark-a chance for conscience-stricken clergymen to win their merit badges in the civil rights revolution? Or was it a genuinely charismatic event, justifying the euphoria of the Rev. Stanley Hallett, Director of Planning for the Church Federation of Greater Chicago...