Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
...Faithful sons of your nation, image of its heroes, vanguard of its march to freedom, socialism and unity, you have witnessed on your way here the delight of your nation over your victorious return!" The soldiers clearly shared the nation's delight, for even Egypt's poverty-stricken villages would look good after the harsh wilderness of Yemen...
...King Paul of Greece, 61, recovering from an appendectomy, at Evan-gelismos Hospital, Athens; Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 67, reportedly hospitalized with flu and complications, in Moscow; Representative Francis E. Walter, 69, Pennsylvania Democrat, chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities, stricken with leukemia, but "up and about," in Georgetown University Hospital...
...arrogance and irresponsibility of a Democratic Party too long in power than about the increasing unreality of Republican leadership and policies too long without the experience of leading the government. Hughes was convinced that the Republicans' mindless oppositionism had been partly responsible for the paralysis which had, by 1952, stricken the Democratic Administration...
Thus, as it has every spring since the Middle Ages, began one of the world's most brutally powerful Easter Week processions. The hooded figure was that of a conscience-stricken French sinner whose identity was known only to the local curate, Father Jean Baptiste Scuitti. From wherever he had come, the man was there voluntarily to atone for his sins by enacting the role of Christ making his way to Calvary. To Corsicans, as always, he was known only as Le Catenacciu (The Enchained...