Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week landed his Mohawk Airlines' twin-engined Convair smoothly and watched his 21 passengers debark. Then Albertson strolled to the terminal building-where he fell dead of a heart attack. His passengers could only count their blessings-and wonder what would have happened if Albertson had been stricken a few minutes earlier...
...Sands Hotel. But Comedian Milton Berle, 54, who has seen more than his share of nightclub stewpots, wasn't so sure. Noting the man's slate-colored face and blue lips, he shouted: "He's not drunk, he's having a heart attack." Carrying the stricken man to a service table, Berle spent 20 minutes administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until an ambulance arrived. Said Berle afterwards: "I never did find out the guy's name, but I found out later they saved...
...took more sorrow to make Eleanor become Eleanor. In 1921 Franklin was stricken with paralytic polio. She nursed her husband, fought off his mother's inclination to keep him an invalid at the family home in Hyde Park. She also encouraged Franklin to seek the governorship of New York, which he won in 1928. She was less than enthusiastic about his pushing on to the presidency, but once he decided to run, she worked hard...
...opened a small cut at the edge of his left eye. Desperately, Fullmer began to elbow and butt, trying to bull Tiger into the ropes. Ruthlessly, the Nigerian Tiger mimicked him, tactic for tactic. By the ninth round, blood cascaded down the champion's left cheek. Sitting horror-stricken at ringside, four-year-old DeLaun Fullmer screamed, "Daddy! Daddy!"-and his mother cradled his head in her arms. The ring doctor examined Fullmer's cuts between rounds, seemed about to stop the fight; when the champion protested, the doctor shrugged and climbed out of the ring...
...Stricken Conscience. In 1957 Stashinsky received orders to go to Munich, track down a Ukrainian nationalist writer named Lev Rebet and kill him; an agent sent from Moscow gave him instructions in using the poison-spray gun. The prospect mildly disturbed Stashinsky, but his belief that the Ukrainian extremists were 'people of the lowest sort" stiffened his spirit. Still, when he tested the gun on a dog that was tied to a tree, Stashinsky recalled, "I felt sick. I kept telling myself this was all necessary to help other people. At moments like this you grab on to your...