Word: stricken
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Champagne Finish. Even without going into the selection room, Jubilee reports, 51% of Protestant clergymen and 41% of their Roman Catholic brethren feel, according to a recent poll, that undertakers exploit bereaved families at least part of the time. The grief-stricken, notes Psychology of Funeral Service, "are less capable of reasoning than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish...
Another ineligibility incident recently improved the varsity's slate from 5-3 to 5-2. Halfback Noel Wilson, who scored the decisive goal in Amherst's 2-0 win over the Crimson early in the season, turned out to be a professional, and the game has been officially stricken from the records. Wilson reportedly played on a professional team in Philadelphia...
...patients resumed regular activity, reported no angina or other subjective symptoms of coronary insufficiency. Nonetheless, ten of the 46 suffered second attacks within the five-year period, and one died. The other 54 patients, although apparently recovered, complained of chronic angina. Of these, 38 were again stricken before the five years had passed, and eight died. The overall rate of recurrence among both groups: 48%. Overall mortality rate for the victims of second attacks...
...casualty figures "grossly exaggerated." But last week, eleven days after the storm struck, the estimate was that the total would be "unimaginably higher'' than the 5,000 dead reported on Ramgati and Hatia alone. Getting out of his Jeep to inspect some still-standing huts in the stricken region, East Pakistan Governor Lieut. General Azam Khan observed: "People must give up living in those places...
...more deplorable casualties of current writing is the happy childhood. Still, there must be some adults who were happy kids, and occasionally a writer is bold enough to stand and be counted. English Poet Laurie Lee made no bones about the joy of his poverty-stricken youth in The Edge of Day (TIME, March 28). Now Marcel Pagnol, a French Academician and man of film and theater (Fanny, The Baker's Wife), writes with uninhibited pleasure of a Provence boyhood. By his account, it was so lacking in bitterness that, to Freudian critics, it will seem downright square...