Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Yale game its annual place of ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
...Angeles Dodgers; following a stroke; in Inglewood, Calif. The Tennessee-born Gilliam joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1953, replacing Jackie Robinson at second base, and was celebrated as a "ballplayer's ballplayer" before turning into a player-coach in 1965 and a full-time coach two years later. Stricken on Sept. 15, Gilliam slipped into a coma and never knew that his team had dedicated its league championship and World Series play...
...that is poorly distributed. Only 11.8% of all Brazil's cities and towns receive any aid at all for needy children. There is only one government or private-care agency for every 10,000 needy or abandoned children. Only 10% of these institutions are located in the poverty-stricken northeast, where nearly one-half of the country's deprived young are to be found. Well-intentioned attempts by agencies and individuals to find adoptive parents are hampered by the fact that few eligible grownups want to take in dark-skinned children; they prefer the relatively...
...proved an ideal laboratory for bizarre experiments in government. Since 1975 they had been ruled by quixotic Ali Soilih, 41, a bald-headed leftist who seized power shortly after the islands became independent from France. Soilih began his extraordinary career by promising socialist equality to his 300,000 poverty-stricken, racially mixed countrymen. But after deteriorating relations with France resulted in a cutoff of aid and his treasury began to run dry, Soilih tried something different. His new start amounted to government by hallucination...
Before he was stricken, Paul seemed to sense, somehow, that his life was nearing its end. Four weeks ago, as he left the Vatican for his annual summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo in the nearby Alban Hills, he told an aide: "We do not know if we will return and how we will return." On the first day of August, the theme recurred. Driven to the wine-making hamlet of Frattocchio to visit the grave of an old friend, he said to a knot of onlookers: "We hope to meet him after death, which for us cannot be far away...