Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trickled out of the devastated area describing the plight of rural survivors, whose perils included not only thirst, disease and famine, but packs of hungry, maddened wolves. The bodies of more than 2,000 Iranians have already been recovered, and aid teams have yet to reach most of the stricken area...
...past month Radio Peking has acknowledged that 15 million people are facing starvation in eastern Hopei province, and reported the firing of two vice governors and the downgrading of eight local functionaries in famine-stricken Kwangsi province for failing to transport foodstuffs to a stricken area, thus causing 550 people to die of hunger...
...fellah who sold his water buffalo and two-thirds of an acre of land to run for Parliament; the council rejected him in a kindly way on the grounds that he should not waste his substance in a candidacy which they considered hopeless. When other grounds failed, candidates were stricken off "for considerations of the National Union or certain policies"-that is, they were opposing men Nasser wanted elected...
...every election since World War II, Sardinians had given a steadily increasing share of their votes to Communist candidates. Last week, a little better off-thanks to the $200 million which Italian governments have pumped into Sardinia's poverty-stricken economy in the past four years (TIME, May 21, 1956)-the islanders reversed their Communist trend (the Red vote fell off from 22.3% to 17.5%). The dominant Christian Democrats increased their vote (from 41% to 41.8%). But the real surprise of the election was the showing made on his first campaign in Sardinia by ebullient, 72-year-old Achille...
...giving his fellow townsmen spaghetti, circuses, repaved streets, and a first-class soccer team. (Mayor Lauro cheerfully forked over $200,000 to sign up one Swedish soccer star for Naples.) The Neapolitan crowds love him; opposition politicians consider him a gold-plated clown, or, in the words of one, stricken by "dynamic senility...