Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board meeting. The board of officers is gathered awaiting the arrival of P.S. du Pont, their president. His absence is baffling. He is punctilious about company matters, and he never misses a board meeting. The officers begin to speculate that perhaps the influenza epidemic or a terrible accident has stricken the boss. He, in fact, is missing the meeting to be at the sick bed of his chauffeur--his only true friend. Mosley contrasts P.S.'s affection for his servant with his marked coldness toward his wife. P.S. is the first of many du Ponts in the book whose friendships...
Tito may never hear that message. For the past two months, he has been wavering between life and death at the Ljubljana Clinical Center in Slovenia, where he underwent amputation of his left leg on Jan. 20. Now semicomatose, he is stricken with a formidable array of ailments: kidney failure, heart trouble, internal hemorrhaging, pneumonia, infection and high fever. Yugoslav officials have given Tito up for dead on at least two occasions. Yet the tough old Resistance fighter has continued to defy long medical odds. His tenacity has far surpassed even that of Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco...
...than 700 victims this year. Thousands of others thronged to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where Romero's body lay in state, and joined a silent procession behind the cortege as it was taken to the Metropolitan Cathedral. "He was our father and protector," explained one grief-stricken woman carrying a small bouquet of yellow flowers. Said a middle-aged salesman: "The people will never forget this vile...
This dread scenario is occurring with dismaying?and increasing ?frequency around the world. In the U.S. alone, 405,000 people will die of cancer and nearly a million new cases will be diagnosed this year. Nearly every family is affected; one out of every four Americans will eventually be stricken with the baffling disease. Progress has been made in treating some forms of cancer. Yet despite years of great effort and expense by government and private researchers around the world to understand and conquer the disease, the best that many cancer victims can hope for is to have their lives...
Devere, who acted as an extra in Cruising, said he was "conscious-stricken" in the role "not because the movie was being made, but because the violence the movie depicts is uncomfortably close to anyone who frequents the night world in any gay area." Says he: "The enemy is not Cruising; it is not outside. The heart of darkness is within, after all. I'm saddened by that, and frightened...