Word: stricken
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...onto his knees in the empty street. His first shot hit Adnan in the shoulder; the next entered his neck and killed him. As the two gunmen hurried down an alley, Jalila wailed over her son's body. "God is most great," she lamented. On her knees, the grief-stricken woman took the blood from Adnan's wounds and smeared it across her face...
Wael Imad's stricken mother arrived at the chaotic main gate of Shifa Hospital. The yard in front of the hospital was crowded with bloodied young men and people searching frantically for injured relatives. Mozna Imad gave her name to an orderly. As soon as she spoke, she was surrounded by doctors and nurses. They carried her off to a single-story white structure in the corner of the yard. This was Shifa's morgue...
When Pennsylvania's Republican Governor sent out $100 rebates on school-district property taxes just before the elections, Democrats accused him of trying to buy votes. Now some taxpayers are returning the money--to school districts. The debt-stricken Philadelphia school district has already received more than $42,000 in rebate checks--mostly from suburbanites who say they feel underfunded city schools need the money more than their local schools...
...tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both in the same place; a saga of innocence being continuously lost...
...Zack moved again to have Grossman's testimony stricken from the record, claiming it was irrelevant. Sauls denied his request and told everybody to go home...