Word: stricken
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...expected to subsist mainly on an annual allowance doled out by the league. This year the stipend is $133,000 per team, which is supposed to help cover player salaries, food, equipment and travel for a 26-game schedule, plus play-offs. It doesn't go far. One poverty-stricken club in Shanxi province reportedly can't afford to feed its players meat during the season...
...Keaton. People tuning in to “Family Ties” repeats are nostalgic not merely for legwarmers and Watergate humor, but for the boy Fox once was. Alex’s eagerness to grow up is now steeped in tragic irony, as his real-life counterpart is stricken with Parkinson’s disease, an disorder that usually afflicts people decades older...
...that I know whooping cough numbers are up, I'll have to linger over the list of symptoms in that part of the chart to try to project them on to my offspring. The baby + phlegm cocktail is one of the most brutal for mothers. Once stricken, infant nasal passages are so small that any mucus makes their breathing sound like Darth Vader in the final stages of emphysema. You keep wishing: "if it only it could be me who has the cold, instead of her." And before you know it, presto...
...children are smuggled into India each year to join the sex industry. In the age of AIDS, children increasingly earn the biggest profits. With a girl's virginity selling for as much as $3,500 in Bangkok, recurring recessions have ensured a ready supply of daughters sold by poverty-stricken families. The number of child prostitutes in Thailand is at least 60,000, though estimates go as high as 200,000. Almost all are working under duress: 21st century slaves...
Ernest Hemingway, in his celebrated short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," describes the last few hours of a man's life as he lies, stricken by a gangrenous leg, at the foot of Africa's highest mountain. "There, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the top of Kilimanjaro...