Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sharon, Mass. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Griffin began his practice in Sharon in 1901, making house calls by horse and buggy (his fee: $1.50). The doctor was a firm believer in the curative powers of fresh air and exercise. During the 1918 influenza epidemic. Griffin advised 400 stricken patients to open their windows, take fever-reducing medicine and get out of bed as quickly as possible. His widow recalls that only one died...
...election of Jimmy Carter proves the weakness of universal suffrage. It's obvious that only us folks who are paying the bills should vote. Anyone who pays no income taxes should be stricken from the rolls, and those of us who do pay taxes should have a weighted vote in proportion to the amount of money we give the Federal Government...
...sorry streets of the stricken city there was of a sudden great exultation and praise unto the Lord. Young men dreamed lusty dreams, while the elders spake of a day at hand when multitudes would flock from near and far to lavish shekels upon the once-more blessed shore. The place of Atlantis would be born again, said the prophets, as a citadel of many marvels, and it would be called Las Vegas East...
Family Tree. She feels closest kinship with an aunt who once disgraced her village by bearing an illegitimate child, then killing herself and the baby. This interest is rebellious, for the aunt's name has been stricken from the family tree. Yet this woman without a name dared to defy the village by acting and suffering alone. Her niece-50 years later and in another country-knows that she must live similarly alone. "I'm going away," she finally lashes out at Brave Orchid. "And at college I'll have people I like for friends...
...very building where the mysterious Legionnaires' Disease may have been contracted, doctors last week gathered for a symposium, eating lunch and sipping beverages, apparently unconcerned about being stricken with the deadly malady. The physicians had assembled in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel not as an act of reckless bravado but to exchange all the latest information about the cause of the ailment that left 29 people dead and struck 151 others last summer after an American Legion convention at the hostelry...