Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engine would be," he said. "And then as he got over our compound, the other engine shut off. So there was complete silence in the air. And then the plane turned, perpendicular to the ground, with the left wing facing down and the right wing facing up." As the stricken plane kept descending, the wing slashed a trough through the field, like a farmer driving a plow. Then the craft disintegrated...
...final 28° C. But the NRC team is determined not to hurry the process with pumps or other heavy-duty machinery. All in all, the technicians at Three Mile Island are cautiously optimistic. But even after cooldown, their job will not be done. They must still purge the stricken and perhaps permanently wrecked plant of its overburden of frighteningly dangerous radioactivity, a process that could easily go on for months. Then they must figure out a way to dispose of tons of unprecedented high-level nuclear waste left by the nightmare. Even Yankee ingenuity has not come up with...
...flurry of follow-up storms struck several Arkansas communities. By the time the skies cleared, at least 59 people had been killed and nearly a thousand injured, 200 of them critically. About 8,000 were homeless. With property damage estimated at close to $400 million, President Carter declared the stricken valley a major disaster area, making the survivors eligible for low-interest federal loans...
DONALD BARTHELME WAS born and raised in Texas, and remains a shining example for all those unfortunates stricken with similar childhood calamities. At age 47, he is one of the most important writers in America today, published in both The New Yorker and in paperback--a rare, if dubious, achievement. Barthelme leads the so-called "comic irrealist" movement in modern fiction, which includes such lesser writers as Richard Brautigan and William Gass. But in his latest collection of short stories, Barthelme proves more adventurous than successful; stretched beyond its limits, his genre becomes tedious and inconsequential...
President Josip Broz Tito, who was staying near the coastal town of Herceg-Novi when the earthquake hit, visited the stricken area. "It was lucky it was not a working day," the 86-year-old president said. He called in his aides to assess the damage and begin organizing rescue operations...