Word: stricken
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...groups have threatened a campaign to discourage travel to the Maldives, which depends on tourist dollars for 20% of its gross domestic product. "The whole thing was a real eye opener for Gayoom," says one Western analyst, who speculates that the President feared his legacy of transforming these poverty-stricken islands into a world-class holiday destination was under threat...
...later, "namely that my heart is a ham loaf." He spent much of his time thereafter in student theatricals as well as football and swimming, with only the minimum study necessary to major in economics. Dutch Reagan (his father had bestowed the nickname at birth) emerged into the Depression-stricken America of 1932 and found there were very few jobs for actors and fewer still for football players. He borrowed the family Oldsmobile and wandered through nearby towns, looking for work at local radio stations. A station manager in Davenport, Iowa, asked him to narrate an imaginary football contest...
Some time ago, he went for a walk and passed a house with roses in front. He bent over to pick one, and the Secret Service agent reminded him it wasn't his house. He looked stricken and said, "But I want to give it to my lady." He picked it and brought it home...
...name suggests, A Mighty Fortress does not ignore Germany’s turbulent and war-stricken past. Rather, the book presents a more substantial perspective. Unifying Germany’s history before 1930 with that after 1945, Ozment does not neglect the white elephant in between...
...great slabs of satire on the nature of monarchy, banking and literature, Victory turns on her journey - and what a journey it turns out to be. "Any fool can rob his enemy," she says, caught stealing from a band of fellow Puritans. "Where's the victory in that?" Grief-stricken and raped before becoming the pregnant confidante of Devonshire and comforter of the King, Mrs Bradshaw embodies "the wisdom of compliance...