Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book: "Risking disease and death as he had done, I went to those places and in most cases found people Greene had met and put into his novels." He tells us that he developed gangrene in South America and got dysentery in the same Mexican boardinghouse where Greene was stricken. In Liberia, locale of Greene's first safari, officials he interviewed had their throats cut a week later, when the government abruptly changed hands...
...shooting grew most intense by 2:15 a.m. A Belgian tourist said he saw a hundred soldiers line up in front of the Museum of the Revolution and fire into the crowd. Panic-stricken people fell to the pavement or cowered behind the imperial city's ornate stone lions. Many sought sanctuary at the Beijing Hotel complex, where military officers later combed through rooms searching for foreign journalists' notebooks and audio-and videotapes...
...Peninsula, 200 miles away, the 425-ft. Soviet ship Vaydaghubsky stalks chocolate-colored oil on the high seas. At the top of Montague Strait, south of Valdez harbor, the 17,000-ton troopship U.S.S. Juneau has set anchor. The 400 men aboard are on an expedition to cleanse oil-stricken Smith Island before the annual arrival of seals...
HARVARD cannot bring ROTC back as a panacea for poverty-stricken students. The group is a vocation that should draw members based on interest in military leadership, not bribe people because of their destitution...
...they are an embarrassment no longer. Bush's son and grandson went to earthquake-stricken Armenia to help in relief efforts. Several are involved in child or community programs. It seems they are as much a part of policy initiatives as John Sununu, and more so than Dan Quayle...