Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an estimated 5,000,000 Asian flu cases already reported in the U.S., Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service predicted last week that the nation faces new epidemics in the next eight to ten weeks in areas not hitherto stricken. After that, he hoped, "we will be going down hill." So far, with nearly 400 deaths attributed to Asian flu and its complications, the death rate is a minute fraction...
self-conscience -stricken: feeling guilty...
...able to afford, they are forced to consume less and produce more, and are falling ever lower in living standards. Said Dr. A. Eugene Staley, Stanford Research Institute's senior international economist: "Despite all the vaunted technological and economic progress of modern times, there are probably more poverty-stricken people in the world today than there were 50 years...
...July 1947, newly naturalized as plain British Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, the ex-Prince of Greece, a relatively poverty-stricken sailor with only one suit of civvies to his name, moved into Kensington Palace to await the ordeal of becoming a bridegroom. "That poor young navy officer," moaned a royal valet, " he don't even have no hairbrushes...
...gilded robes and meticulously formed figures, transcending the stiff, hierarchic form of the early Gothic style. The aging St. Peter reads a prayer, while another apostle offers holy water, and a third blows out a candle, symbol of life. St. John, on the dying Virgin's right, stricken with sorrow, raises his cloak. The outer figures, by their startled gaze and uplifted heads, point to the next act-the Assumption of the Virgin to her throne of glory beside Christ, surrounded by angels...