Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canada's Terry Fox, for his run across Canada on one healthy leg before being stricken a second time with cancer...
...raised people's hopes," said Giuseppe Zamberletti, who heads the government relief operation. "A massive evacuation would have been more likely to take place had we failed to bring adequate help." With that, the government moved thousands of campers, trailers and even some railroad cars into the stricken region. By week's end some 12,000 homeless victims of the earthquake had been transferred from tents to more substantial dwellings-including, for a lucky few, prefabricated houses...
Across the quake-stricken area, able-bodied survivors dug frantically with their hands in search of husbands, wives, children, parents. By night, they slept in the open, huddled together around hundreds of campfires that dotted the countryside...
...arrived little better equipped than the people they were sent to help. Eventually, shortages in the quake zone gave rise to a ghoulish black-market trade in everything from coffins to mineral water. The result was widespread bitterness, as Pertini discovered on Tuesday during an inspection tour of the stricken region. "How dare you stroll through here?" shouted a man digging through the rubble in Laviano as the immaculately dressed presidential party approached. "This is not a spectacle, you shits! My wife is down there. She has been screaming for two days...
...responsibility-and the credit-for ultimately pulling together the relief effort belonged to Giuseppe Zamberletti, 56, the government's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Appointed commissioner for the stricken area on Tuesday, Zamberletti set up headquarters in Naples and immediately imposed some badgering generalship on his sprawling forces. By Friday large quantities of food, clothing and medical supplies to prevent the spread of disease were flowing into the major towns, though deliveries to the most isolated villages remained slow. The commissioner also busied himself requisitioning railroad cars and seaside tourist hotels to provide temporary shelter for the homeless...