Word: stricken
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...closed the speech with a story of an acquaintance—an aid worker in Darfur—who was so stricken by the horror of her experiences there that she was reduced to tears upon the simple sight of a birdfeeder...
...high; as it edged forward the cable scraped along its roof. Soldiers rushed in and forced the driver to stop and then made a cursory attempt to push the crowd back a safe distance. Slowly, the winch on the back of a recovery truck started hauling in the stricken vehicle. The cables groaned and creaked and the pins started to pull out of the earth, but after 20 minutes the truck lurched from the ditch and collapsed in a heap on the road...
...African country's drought and poverty and that in order to prevent another Darfur, we must halt climate change. What an arrogant, ignorant idea. Sub-Saharan Africa has been and will remain a place that will barely eke out life in the best of times and will remain poverty stricken despite the rest of the world's climate policy. I have sympathy for the people of Darfur, but advocating steps to stop global warming is just wishful thinking, and using the people of Darfur to further a purely political agenda is despicable. John Lifer Jr., Clinton, Mississippi...
...characters were exaggerated to stereotypical extremes, but where a few—like worry-stricken Martinius—were glaringly overacted, others were more skilfully caricatured. McEachern, for instance, conveyed the grief and lovesickness of his Prince Roderick with hilarious whimsy, and much of the play exuded a melodramatic mood only appropriate in fairy tales...
...vote came in response to an amendment put forth by Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics Howard A. Stone that would have stricken the term “liberal education” from the legislation’s preamble...