Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 90 men braved the winds and waves, bobbing, in the words of a U.S. officer, "like a Ping-Pong ball in a stormy bathtub." A Soviet intelligence ship eventually appeared to monitor the activities of the submarine and an American destroyer that was keeping watch over the stricken craft, while the queasy Soviet sailors waited for a salvage ship that eventually arrived from Cuba. Said a Pentagon spokesman during the uncomfortable hiatus: "She isn't going anywhere. She is dead in the water...
...Turks worked valiantly to cut their losses. Army troops stationed near the Soviet border within 100 miles of the afflicted area rushed 7,000 pup tents, 26,000 blankets and ten tons of tea to the stricken villagers. After the daily newspaper Hurriyet printed a front-page photo of two young girls forlornly searching for their parents, it was flooded with calls from readers offering to adopt orphaned survivors. The government also received promises of several donations from abroad, including $10 million from Saudi Arabia and more than $2 million worth of supplies from...
...attempts at sympathy for his largely poverty-stricken clients fail as well...
Every day some 40 million Americans, stricken by such cravings as the Big Mac attack and the Whopper whim, happily surrender to the artery-clogging, waist-expanding pleasures of fast food. But for diet-conscious consumers in particular, a megaburger binge provokes guilt feelings. Reason: the grab-a-bite meal of a quarter-pound cheeseburger, French fries and 16-oz. cola typically contains 1,070 calories. Since an average 170-lb. officeworker must consume fewer than 2,900 calories a day in order to lose weight, a trip to the burger stand does not leave much room for breakfast...
...Newark more than 20 families wrapped their faces in wet towels to save themselves from the gas raid, tied up traffic with their calls for gas masks and ambulances. In Harlem the godly gathered in prayer. Eight hundred and seventy-five panic-stricken people phoned the New York Times alone. St. Michael's Hospital, Newark, treated 15 people for shock. A man called the Dixie Bus Terminal, shouting "The World is coming to an end and I've got a lot to do!" In Providence frightened townsfolk demanded that the electric company black out the city to save...