Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medical School research team has developed a pump which restores blood to the stricken area of the heart after an otherwise fatal attack...
...marry a rich man (Claude Akins), but when the girl laughs him off as a "fat old fool,'' the mother is only too ready to offer him consolation. In the end, two of the daughter's boy friends fight, and one of them is killed. Stricken with guilt, the wench cries out: "Oh Papa! It's all my fault!'' It isn't, though. Hovelist Erskine Caldwell's breast-selling book, on which the film is based, negotiates such a ruttish stretch of his notorious Tobacco Road that anybody who tries to follow...
Behind their new wall, the Communists were busy stamping out the unrest that had swept the nation ever since the Berlin crackdown. Dozens of East Germans went on trial for "insulting the state." Many panic-stricken East Germans who bought up groceries and clothing in fear of war were called on the carpet for hoarding. There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate...
...three were shot down by Pathet Lao gunfire while on a mission to the Meo country. Wasting no time, Nagle and his helicopter crew grabbed a survival kit and headed for the cover of the jungle. Not long ago, another helicopter crew, forced down by gunfire, stuck by their stricken craft to wait for rescue. The men have not been heard from since, and are reported prisoners of the Pathet...
Although Dr. Frankl's theory was already formulated before he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, his experiences in the concentration camps provided empirical confirmation for it. He himself, stricken with typhus fever attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt to rewrite the confiscated manuscript of his book. The Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps...