Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers were panic-stricken and hysterical. They ordered me to drive them 'out of this dirty mess.' "I tried to explain to them that the car would be certain death and that standing there in full view was also ridiculous. At this moment one of them was shot in the leg. Instead of sobering them, this caused more panic...
...invasions endured for so many centuries were not merely bad dreams. How can I believe that the Germans ever entertained toward the Gauls anything but this cordiality of which I was being offered such striking proofs? But when I found myself again in the ruined streets amid a grief-stricken crowd, I could see what disaster this nation had had to endure in order to heed the counsels of reason at last...
...Rain. Such protestations of innocence have not diluted the drought-stricken farmers' bitterness. In several towns, farmers have held protest meetings against seeding. In Falling Waters, W. Va.. Farmer Bruce Kitchen and two neighbors are collecting signatures on a petition in hopes of getting an anti-seeding bill introduced in the state legislature. Farmers have threatened to shoot at cloud-seeding planes. In Mercersburg, they were blamed for cutting down 138 plum trees belonging to Orchardist Henry Heisey; he decided to withdraw from the Weather Modification Association...
...growing throng of horrified West Berliners stood gaping on the other side of the barrier. As the minutes ticked past, photographers, cops, even a couple of U.S. military policemen, edged gingerly up to the Wall's western side to have a look at the hideous sight. One conscience-stricken U.S. second lieutenant could stand it no longer, picked up the "hot line" telephone to Major General Albert Watson II. the U.S. commandant in West Berlin. Back came the order: "Lieutenant, you have your orders. Stand fast. Do nothing." Not knowing the reason for the Americans' inaction, an agonized...
...though, it was not the Yankees or Frick or financial problems that drove Bill Veeck out of baseball in June 1961. He was stricken with a vascular ailment, treated at the Mayo Clinic, ordered to take a long rest. Will he be back? Says Veeck: "Sometime, somewhere, there will be a club that no one really wants. And then Ole Will will come wandering back to laugh some more...