Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passer-by had the sense to alert the Cambridge Rescue Unit, located in the fire station. They appeared within minutes and competently took over. It was only as the rescue truck was leaving the Yard with the stricken man that a University Policeman finally appeared. He only seemed interested in stopping this motor vehicle from driving through the Yard...
Haiti. President François Duvalier last week felt himself so threatened by the forces of discontent in his poverty-stricken republic that he expelled the highest-ranking Roman Catholic churchman in the country, an archbishop, on the odd charge of encouraging "Communist student revolutionaries...
Most gravely stricken of all were Japan's impressionable young ladies. A 22-year-old salesgirl at the giant Takashi-maya department store in Tokyo gushed to an inquiring reporter: "He is rich, young, handsome and intelligent-the most ideal man in the world." Reiko Dan, a leading Japanese movie actress, confided that she would abstain from voting because Japanese parties lacked "a handsome candidate like Mr. Kennedy...
...articles of praise. Brazil is a major target, and hundreds of prominent Brazilian leftists have gotten the red-carpet treatment in Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech, the peasant poor now mutter grimly about land reform and sing, "What harm is there in a ship/Carrying our common Brazilian coffee/And selling it to a China/Where there is no Chiang Kai-shek...
...Authority became the swirling center of a great national controversy. Castigated by its enemies as a socialistic octopus, defended by its friends as an amiable and beneficent giant, the TVA wielded the power of government to tame the floods of the Tennessee River and revitalize its vast and poverty-stricken valley, stretching over 80,000 square miles into seven states. This week the TVA, now accepted as a permanent part of the U.S. scene by friend and foe alike, showed the initiative of a private enterprise. For the first time in its history, it went into the public bond market...