Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage version, an express train stops unexpectedly at Guellen, a poverty-stricken village somewhere in Central Europe. Onto the platform sweeps "the richest woman in the world," a flamboyant beldame whose effects include a wooden leg, a pair of eunuchs, a caged panther and an empty coffin. She has returned to her birthplace seeking revenge. She offers a fortune to Guellen and its citizens in exchange for the life of one man, now a local merchant, who seduced her when she was 17, left her pregnant and dishonored after hiring perjurers to testify to her lewdness. "The world made...
Last week both Italy and the Communist world reverberated to Togliatti's last words: a wide-ranging, 4,500-word memorandum prepared shortly before he was stricken. It covered not only his relations with Moscow but also his prophecies for the future of Communism in Italy. He took Nikita Khrushchev sternly to task for his heavy-handed tactics in the ideological dispute with Red China, decried the slowness with which the Soviet Union has moved in eradicating the "regime of restrictions and suppression of democratic and personal freedom introduced by Stalin." He vigorously defended the independence of national Communist...
...A.M.A. warns that such foods as cut-up poultry, eggs, prepared meats, cake mixes and custard-filled bakery products are most likely to be contaminated because they are handled so often and so lightly cooked. In May, after 200 people from Utah were stricken with salmonellosis, food detectives traced the cause to infected frozen eggs used by local bakers. An outbreak that affected 300 people in Washington State last year was also traced to a frozen-egg product used in lemon meringue pies. Modern mass-production methods of food processing sometimes help spread salmonella...
...relieved Kaunda broke into a parliamentary debate to announce the news, and promptly adjourned the session so that his ministers could depart for the stricken countryside to spread word of Lenshina's surrender. In addition, radio stations throughout the land began broadcasting a tape-recorded message from Alice. Composed with her lawyer's aid, it pleaded, "You sons of God, listen to what I have to say. The government and I want to settle our troubles peacefully. I order all our people to return to their villages and not attack anybody. When you have received this message...
...dies despite her loving care-torn to pieces by a big yellow mongrel trained by the treacherous fur trader. In grief and fury Karana tracks the mongrel down and puts an arrow through him. But the brute, though deeply stricken, hangs onto life; and Karana, though rightfully revenged, begins by pitying and ends by nursing him. By the time he is well, she has come to love her enemy. Together they assail the seasons of their exile cheerfully, and make a life of what might otherwise have merely been a fate...