Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleagues for borrowing the first of the bills-which would, in effect, permit school boards to assign pupils on a racial basis-from "lesser states." "Texas had to import foreign-made provisions from such backward entities as South Carolina," he cried. "Why is it that you are so poverty-stricken?" And time and again he warned his colleagues of the ultimate perils of segregation: "It may be some can chloroform their conscience. But if we fear long enough,, we hate, and if we hate long enough, we fight...
Whether because of a discouraged tutor or a group of bored students, tutorial often fails to fulfill its potential. Sophomores interested in exploring their field become disillusioned. Tutors with a sense of mission are wasted, and the already ennui-stricken student sinks deeper into his intellectual stupor...
Sailing for Europe, Novelist John (The Short Reign of Pippin IV) Steinbeck did not yet know the happy news: the state of Oklahoma, which fussed and fumed at his portrait in The Grapes of Wrath of poverty-stricken Okies fleeing their drought-struck land, had at last forgiven him. After Steinbeck told an ABC-TV interviewer that "I've spoken against dust and I've spoken against poverty, but never against Oklahoma," Oklahoma's Governor Raymond Gary named him a member of the Governor's Staff of Oklahoma Boosters...
Jordan indicated immediate acceptance. Talks began at once on ways to put the money to quick use in this troubled, poverty-stricken Middle East kingdom...
...defenders of the system counter by claiming that education is a discipline, and that men must be forced to keep their dull noses to the grindstone. They claim that students would spend their time in less noble pursuits were they not stricken with report-carditis. This argument, although partly true, inverts the concept of education...