Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soon Nixon called. I must not remember our encounter that evening as a sign of weakness, he said. How strange is the illusion by which men sustain themselves! This evening when he had bared his soul I saw a man of tenacity and resilience. And so I told the stricken President that if I ever spoke of the evening, it would be with respect. He had honored me by sharing with me his last free night in the White House. He had conducted himself humanly and worthily...
...Thoroughbred horse breeder and art collector, Whitney was an active philanthropist who gave away about $1 million a year. A man who savored the amenities and comforts his achievements easily afforded him, he never flaunted his wealth ($200 million at his death). Demanding in 1946 that his name be stricken from the Social Register, he said, "If you willingly go along with such a travesty of democracy as the Register, you tacitly subscribe to its absurd notions...
...began talking about the "terrible tragedy on the Potomac" that Skutnik had an inkling that something was up. "Oh, oh," he thought, "here it comes." Suddenly the leaders of the land were on their feet and waves of heartfelt, nonpartisan applause rolled through the House chamber. Skutnik, looking slightly stricken, stood up with the help of a shove from behind. "My mind went blank, I didn't move a muscle. I was stunned. Not many people get standing ovations, and for somebody like...
...funeral, Brezhnev appeared grief-stricken as he shuffled along, supported by aides, behind Suslov's coffin. Before the body was lowered into a grave next to Joseph Stalin's beside the Kremlin Wall, Brezhnev read a eulogy: "While saying goodbye to our comrade, I would like to tell him, 'Sleep peacefully, our dear friend; you have led a great and glorious life...
...with a suspended sentence). A fierce outrage cascaded down on him last week. It was common to hear New Yorkers say that he should be tried as an accessory to murder. Mailer barged around giving interviews and suing a newspaper for libel, looking truculent and stricken...