Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. Grant's astonishing evolution from a faltering, fear-stricken officer in his first Civil War battles to a masterful commander two years later, told with the author's customary skill...
Influenza and related ills had millions of Americans by the throat last week. Since flu is not a disease that must be reported to health authorities, no accurate tally of the victims was possible. But it was estimated that 2,000,000 had been stricken in the Los Angeles area since New Year's, that 1,000,000 were laid up last week (500,000 of them in the city of Los Angeles, an equal number in surrounding communities). Across the nation, outbreaks were spotty. Boston reported up to 20% of schoolchildren absent. Pittsburgh was hard hit. Cleveland...
...yoshi. A marriage was arranged for him with his cousin Yoshiko, the daughter of his father's brother. Although the marriage did not take place for another seven years (Yoshiko was only eleven at the time), Nobusuke resumed his father's name of Kishi and was stricken from the Sato family register...
...heroine is Baroness Milli von Kailern, 23, unmarried and disenchanted with life in the Socialist, poverty-stricken Vienna of 1926. When her love for stuffy Prince Wieland Traun is rebuffed, Milli despairingly gives herself to another young man, in what may well be the most tepidly described seduction in contemporary literature: "One day in their flat, when his mother was out for a couple of hours only, he began to undress me . . . That I was a virgin surprised...
Ambition is no problem. An African boy cheerfully slogs hundreds of miles out of the bush to find the nearest primary school. If he reaches secondary school (10% do), he must persuade his poverty-stricken father to help him stay. He may even face a painful ordeal at the hands of the tribal witch doctor to prove his determination. And if he actually gets through college, all his relatives descend on him for support. Yet able Africans endure any hardship to win a university degree, the highest status symbol they can imagine...