Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate over U.S. policy in Central America, one of the Reagan Administration's biggest problems has been to make a successful case that there is any kind of superpower meddling in the stricken region-any meddling, that is, aside from its own. Congressmen have leaped quickly upon the Administration's barely concealed support for the guerrilla warfare of disaffected rebels against the Marxist-led Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Legislators have been unwilling to accept Reagan's oft-repeated assertion that the four-year-old insurgency in El Salvador is covertly sponsored by the Soviet Union...
...American people when it comes to Latin America and the potential for trouble. When one party believes, the other seems to scoff, and there is something in the U.S.'s mind-set that rejects the idea of a serious threat from any nation so close, so poverty-stricken and, as folklore would have it, so naturally inefficient...
...visit particularly stricken by bad luck was that of Malcolm Fraser, the Prime Minister of Australia, who came in 1976. Fraser's arrival was marked by thick, black and violent rain clouds which sheeted the rain so heavily that one could not see 10 feet ahead. Anderson still laughs when he recalls picking up the Prime Minister, whose plane was nearly two hours late. Returning in the limousine. Anderson attempted to point out some of Cambridge's highlights. "Mr. Prime Minister, that's MIT," the Marshal would say, as Fraser stared into the pitch-black clouds, trying to recognize...
...time Maspons got to the plate in the third inning, the rain made it look as though his shot of the previous inning might get stricken from the books...
...question in AIDS is who will be affected next. So far, the disease has mostly stricken homosexual men (72% of all cases), intravenous drug abusers (17%), Haitian immigrants (4%) and hemophiliacs (1%). But a majority of the experts believe that what was once known as the "gay plague" will enter the general population. Because of their frequent contact with AIDS patients and blood, "hospital workers will be next," predicts Dr. Roger Enlow, a leading AIDS researcher. As head of New York City's brand-new office of gay and lesbian health concerns, Enlow monitors new cases of AIDS...