Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few years, usually in summer or fall, dozens of people in eastern Connecticut-both children and adults-have been stricken with these painful and puzzling symptoms, which often come in repeated episodes that last for weeks and even months at a stretch. At first, doctors suspected rheumatoid arthritis, a serious disease of still unknown origin that can permanently cripple the joints. Then, learning that almost all the victims lived in three adjoining towns along the Connecticut River-Lyme, Old Lyme and East Haddam (total population 12,000)-medical investigators from the Yale University School of Medicine came...
...Cruelty to Animals, there has been a marked increase in "demands for ransom to return animals." The ransom bite usually ranges between $150 and $200. Sometimes those seeking ransom do not even have the animal; they pose as dog finders when they see the phone number of a grief-stricken owner in "Dog Lost" advertisements...
Almost one fourth of the students on board here will participate in a fast tonight to support agricultural development in the drought-stricken islands of Cape Verde, the fast's organizer said yesterday...
Flash fires, dense smoke and a series of explosions wracked the stricken craft. Since the Clipper had been turning to its left, passengers on the right side had little chance. Unlike most air crashes, those seated up front were the lucky ones this time. For many, going first class was worth their life...
...voluntary acceptance" of sterilization. A recent tour of the Indian countryside proved that this claim was wildly untrue. In the village of Pipli in Haryana state, where police enforced a mass sterilization, the menfolk seemed like the inhabitants of a town in a gothic tale who had been stricken by some mysterious pestilence. All nodded in agreement as Gyani Ram, 40, told how he had been forced to undergo a vasectomy, and then was denied a certificate after officials discovered too late that he was childless and should not have been sterilized in the first place. "I feel neither...