Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile Fermoyle brightens a poverty-stricken country parish and becomes a secretary to Cardinal Glennon of Boston, a role played by Director John Huston with a ripsnorting vitality that all but steals the show. Smoking an expensive cigar, raising the devil with a young curate, or getting riotously seasick en route to Rome, Huston is superb. He wangles a Vatican appointment for his bright young aide, but Fermoyle, inconsolable over Mona, gets a two-year leave from the priesthood. Such leave is rarely granted in fact, and even in the movie Fermoyle is still bound by vows of celibacy. While...
...Hemisphere picks up the trail of the latest head of state to visit Washington, Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, but bases the main part of the story on a look at the poverty-stricken country that has persuaded the U.S. to allocate it more aid per capita than any other Latin American nation...
...open sea and churning it into energy. As reports from the planes came in, Puerto Rico braced itself. So did the Bahamas and Florida. But like many an adventuress, Flora had an eye for demagogues, finally curved toward the western arm of Hispaniola. Broadcasting to Haiti, the poverty-stricken Negro nation ruled by Dictator Francois Duvalier, U.S. weathermen issued urgent warnings: "This is a dangerous hurricane ... all precautions should be taken...
...furs to apartments, thousands upon thousands of Italians have run up staggering debts. Nearly every day the Italian press discovers another case of someone obli gated to pay out more monthly on cambiali than he actually earns. Almost everyone does his part, but the heaviest plungers are the poverty-stricken Sicilians and the migrants to the rich north, who are dazzled by luxury goods and modern household appliances. Last year 8,160,546 cambiali were dishonored, 10% more than...
...contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times: "You are not going to reverse all these trends immediately. If you did it would be rather disastrous...