Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like ships that pass in the night, the two Crimson outdoor track teams are headed in different directions. The Harvard team, stricken by injuries and decimated by graduation, will limp through the spring in a struggle to measure up to last year's luminous 8-0 record. But for the Radcliffe squad, a rosy outlook is a bit clouded; with this year's talent turnout, last year's dismal 1-5 record should be avenged--but to what extent...
...Roosevelt's "bully-ness". A frail, asthmatic child painfully builds his body into the epitome of physical fitness and manages to excel athletically at, of all places, Harvard College (from which Roosevelt graduated in 1880, and which he describes in the play as teeming with "intensely languid" people). Stricken with grief at the age of 26 when both his mother and his first wife die on the same day, Roosevelt abandons a budding career in New York politics and heads to the Dakotas, but he finally grapples with his sorrow and returns to the East the following year. These...
...idea sounded beguiling. In a letter to President Carter, California's Representative John Burton wondered whether his drought-stricken state could import snow or runoff water-perhaps by pipeline or railroad-from inundated Eastern areas like Buffalo. But empty pipelines are not available, and state officials, after some reckoning on their calculators, found that 182 million railroad carloads of water or snow would be required to make up for California's water shortage alone. Estimated cost of such an operation: $437 billion...
...weather gradually warmed last week, the first worrisome runoffs began flowing into the ice-clogged streams, raising the threat of flooding in some areas. In Washington, federal officials were already working on plans to provide shelter, food and medical care for stricken communities that could be hit by floods if a sudden thaw turned the runoffs into torrents...
Such tactics are not always necessary. In 1973 conscience-stricken Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz sold his beloved country home to repay $17,500 owed Simon & Schuster for an unwritten tome on the 1960s. Nora Ephron (Crazy Salad) has paid the last of $14,000 she owed Viking for a never-written history of the liquor industry...