Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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America has need of friends abroad, but the brutal shooting of a poverty-stricken, scrap-picking Japanese woman by Private William Girard has made enemies instead. Insult has been added to injury now that Girard has become the recipient of that modern legal farce, the suspended sentence. Girard not only has got away with murder, but he has cost Uncle Sam precious good will...
...Within hours after Ike was stricken, a group of men gathered around an oaken table in the White House to make the decisions that had to be made. Who were they? What did they do? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, cover story...
...Woodrow Wilson, fearing that he could not regain power, refused to surrender responsibility to Vice President Thomas Marshall, even though he had suffered a severe stroke which had paralyzed his left side and heavily impaired his speech. Stricken in September 1919, Wilson was incapacitated much of the 17 months until his term ended. Neither Marshall, the Cabinet nor Congress was told the truth about his condition;* state papers were sent to Mrs. Wilson, who decided which could be shown the Chief Executive without exciting him, which must be passed on to aides for action. For some two months, Wilson...
Molly Palm, who was the head hostess at Cronin's restaurant until six months ago, died last Saturday at her home in Torrington, Conn. She had been a hostess at Cronin's for 12 years before being stricken with a shock last spring...
...varsity's stiffest opposition should come from Cornell, Yale, and Army. Cornell has lost only to the Elis--and this on a day when its two best runners, Mike Midler and Dave Eckel, were stricken with flu. The Crimson, of course, beat Yale last week, but the meet was very close, and might well have gone the other...