Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene came to the world in that stricken electronic burst that has now, after much experience, become a sort of art form, a genre of the politics of terror and risk and awful surprise: television verite abruptly pouring bulletins into the global village, the images of anchormen nervously fighting for a grip on things. The mind behaved like the hand-held television cameras that reeled wildly from sky to earth and then zoomed in on that Guernica of tumbled chairs and shot bodies and blood smears...
...selling pandemonium continued. The Dow Jones industrial index slumped 14 points in the first 30 minutes, and the morning edition of the New York Post proclaimed, WORLD STOCK MARKET PANIC. Said Gary Ross, research director for the Wood Gundy brokerage firm: "Our retail customers were phoning in panic-stricken...
...sharply around to come in behind the Libyans. U.S. rules of engagement permit pilots to shoot back if fired upon, and each of the F-14s triggered a single heat-seeking Sidewinder missile, each scoring a hit on a Libyan plane. One of the Libyan pilots parachuted from his stricken aircraft, and was promptly rescued by a Libyan patrol boat. The engagement, 60 miles off the coast, lasted no more than one minute. It was the first U.S. military action since the ill-fated attempt of April 1980 to rescue the hostages in Iran...
...mother Betty, now 39, was grief-stricken. "I asked, 'What happened?' The doctors said, 'We don't know. Things like this happen.' " The answer did not satisfy Vadala: "That child meant too much for me to just bury her and forget about...
...reduced milk production. At least 33 different species are susceptible, mostly such cloven-hoofed creatures as cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and deer. For farmers the usual recourse is to kill, burn and bury infected livestock. Often an entire herd must be slaughtered, even if only one animal has been stricken, lest the disease spread. Some years ago, British authorities had to kill more than 280,000 animals to contain a major outbreak...