Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in Moscow a few months before Napoleon entered the Czar's tinder capital (1812), Alexander Herzen grew up a bastard aristocrat in a land of serfs, hating the vast sloth of the barbarous empire. Like many another conscience-stricken property owner of his time, he became one of the wild geese of Russia who flapped about Europe hoping that their words would huff and puff down the Byzantine walls of the czardom...
...Nantucket by the inbound Italian immigrant ship Florida. Before the Republic sank, her passengers were transferred to the badly damaged Florida, then to the Baltic, and brought back to New York. It was the first time that wireless was used [by the Republic] to bring help to a stricken ship. I am 80 years old. My husband and I were on the Republic, bound for a two-month honeymoon in Italy when the tragedy occurred...
...statements of Mrs. E. W. Einhellig ". . . Ike is one of the poorest excuses for a President we ever had. Our (U.S.) prestige has never been lower [July 16]." Had Mrs. Einhellig seen, as I did, the shock and apprehension that blanketed Copenhagen, Denmark when Mr. Eisenhower was stricken, she would have realized that true prestige, of a country or a man, is not created by a bellicose attitude or a palm full of silver...
...Killed, 194 (139 Republicans, 55 Dem ocrats) to 179 (126 Republicans. 53 Dem ocrats), the Administration-sponsored, Senate-approved $156 million Frying Pan-Arkansas project designed to bring Frying Pan Creek water to drought-stricken southeastern Colorado (in the Arkansas River valley) by tunnel through the Con tinental Divide...
...with the barest facts. By 2:30 a.m. every Manhattan morning paper-the Times, the Herald Tribune, the News, the Mirror-was on the street with bulletins and sketchy stories. The A.P. alone had 35 men on the story by 7 a.m., wirephotoed its first aerial pictures of the stricken ships by 8:35 a.m., fully 90 minutes before rival United Press. Before noon, on NBC and ABC, TV audiences saw movies of the Andrea Doria. At the peak, the afternoon World-Telegram and Sun had 61 men on the story, practically its whole cityside staff, devoted its entire final...