Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flights were landing at the Buffalo airport. Bundled up in her heaviest ski parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile-long caravan taking emergency rations to the stricken city. "Buffalo was a mess," she reports-streets unplowed, cars buried in snow, people carting groceries home on sleds. "The very fact of being there made you part of the people. 'You stuck here too?' someone would ask, and he'd start right out telling...
...ways of coping are as varied as the crisis. With so many cars marooned in the snow, like beasts stricken in their tracks, people ply the icy city streets in snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
...within a five-minute walk of numerous warm houses. For 32 hours, no ambulance could move. "We couldn't get out to people," recalled Dr. Joseph Zizzi, "and they couldn't get in to us. I've never seen anything like it." Doctors could only telephone stricken residents or send word through CB operators about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread to eight others before heroic firemen could drag hoses through four blocks of drifted roads. One truck driver inched his way for two days...
...write, it's zero outside. Snow is falling. But the Muscovites on their way to homes, universities or theaters this evening do not display the dour, inward-hunched, God-help-us visages of cold-stricken New Yorkers or Chicagoans. Snow is their friend, and servant...
Sixth child of a struggling Kentucky coal-mine operator, Kreps earned a bachelor's degree at Berea College, which described itself as a "selfhelp" school for the poverty-stricken coal-mining region. "The spirit of the place," she recalls, "was one of independence, self-reliance, high-level integrity and academic excellence. It made a deeper impression on me than did my childhood." Kreps took her advanced degrees in economics at Duke. There she met her husband Clifton, now a professor of banking at the nearby University of North Carolina. The couple, married for 32 years, frequently entertain students...