Word: strickened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ford looked stricken. In fact, all five Presidents gathered below Nixon's casket were dramatically reminded that even the toughest actors are ultimately swept from the great stage. And with them such rich memories of the old campaigns. "I asked him to come to Grand Rapids to make a Lincoln Day speech, and he stayed at my parents' home," said Ford. "He slept in a four-poster bed with sideboards. Later, when he became President, my mother hung up a sign on the bed, THE PRESIDENT SLEPT HERE...
When Dick Nixon was 12, his younger brother Arthur, the fourth of the five boys, complained of a headache; a month later he was dead of meningitis. Nixon wrote later that he cried every day for weeks. When Harold, the eldest son, was stricken with tuberculosis, Hannah left the rest of the family to take him to the dryer air in Prescott, Arizona. She could pay for this only by operating a clinic where other TB patients waited out their last weeks of life. In the summers Dick found jobs nearby as a janitor, a chicken plucker, a carnival barker...
Unfortunately, even in this day of advanced medical care, Holyfield's condition is not unusual. Every year we hear of another athlete stricken with a heart condition...
Finally, Nixon deserves our thanks for the sage foreign policy advice he offered to presidents and world leaders after he left office and virtually up until the day he was stricken last week...
...protagonists in Martin's book, two are doomed; only Ellen discovers a small measure of hope when she nurses a stricken jaguar back to health. In all three of its tales, though, The Great Divorce evocatively humanizes the wild nature that is just beneath the surface...