Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as there are people starving to death in Africa, as long as no cure for AIDS or cancer has been found, as long as there are homeless Americans and poverty stricken families, it is offensive that a social organization for men who are already the elite of society should have all this mad money...
...State Seismology Bureau said there were 40 aftershocks in the stricken sub-tropical area, the strongest measuring...
...Swedish director, whose film The Seventh Seal has become the classic portrait of plague-stricken medieval Europe, would probably be surprised to see a play that finds humor where he found existential gloom. And he might be shocked to see mortals play games with Death...
When NBC showed off its no-nonsense journalism, the results were sometimes grating. After boxer Anthony Hembrick was disqualified for arriving late, reporter Wallace Matthews bulled into an inner room where Hembrick slouched disconsolate. Matthews thrust a microphone into the stricken youth's face while posing the perennial pointless question about how Hembrick felt. As soon as swimmer Matt Biondi was touched out for the gold by a hundredth of a second in the 100-meter butterfly, analyst John Naber nastily opined that Biondi "deserved the loss" because he had glided in rather than risk a final, choppy stroke that...
...water was heading north from central Africa. The combination sent the river raging over its banks, killing nearly 100 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. In Khartoum, the capital, sewage-contaminated floodwater swept through squatters' camps, destroying thousands of homes. Farther north, whole villages were submerged. In the famine-stricken south, roads and rail lines were swamped, preventing relief shipments from getting through. According to aid officials, more than a hundred people starve to death every day. Many more are so weak from hunger they can barely crawl...