Word: strickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flights between New York City and Florida, stewardesses and a few stewards begin to contract a strange, oozing rash on their faces, chests and hands. The fluid escaping from their inflamed pores looks like blood, though it is not, and so the rash is called "red sweat." Others are stricken by reddish blotches of pinprick-size dots. But either way, before a doctor can diagnose it, the mysterious rash disappears-until, perhaps, the next New York-Florida flight...
...Eastern's baffled management, the story is all too real. Since January, more than 90 flight attendants have reported cases of red sweat, many of them more than once. Nearly all are women, and most have been stricken on Eastern's new European-produced A300 Airbus jets flying between New York and Miami or Fort Lauderdale. No passengers or pilots have shown any symptoms. In all cases the rash has vanished, leaving its victims wondering if the affliction is only skin deep. "We just can't track this thing down," admits Dr. David Millett, Eastern...
...individual wrongdoing designed to explain why Soviet central planners are unable to meet their goals. In the case of the factory that wasn't, Russians were inevitably reminded of the ruse employed by the 18th century courtier Grigori Potemkin, who erected false fronts on poverty-stricken villages in order to persuade Empress Catherine the Great that her realm was truly prosperous...
...talk about the need to defend their country from the pro-Moscow, Marxist regime in South Yemen. Nonetheless, the Saudis know that the Yemenis resent Riyadh's oil wealth, and that a number of South Yemenis were involved in the Mecca siege. They also know that unstable, poverty-stricken North Yemen could link up with South Yemen to form a menacing new radical state on the Arabian peninsula...
...tried in vain to return to my friends. I found myself unable to touch the ground, and swaying with the people pushed up next to me. Suddenly, I could not get any air. As hard as I tried, I could not get one breath in me. I became panic-stricken. People helped me, but I would not re-enter the stands, and I will never again attend a general-admission concert. When the eleven people died at the Who concert [Dec. 17], I remembered how awful my own experience was, and all I could...