Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half of Chicago's cases came from a tenement section on the West Side, inhabited largely by Negro and Puerto Rican immigrants. In such families, most children get mild, undetected polio infections in their early years, and such infections give them immunity for life. One guess: the children stricken had been infected before with polio virus of one paralytic strain, while the current outbreak might have been caused by a different strain...
...went without saying that the No. 1 guest would be Eisenhower of the U.S. When he was stricken with ileitis, the meeting, originally scheduled for June 25-26 to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Simón Bolivar's first Pan-American conference, was postponed (TIME, July 2). With Ike present, the gathering promised to be harmonious; perhaps the knottiest problem to be threshed out will be the wording of a declaration of Western political ideals. And such traditional enemies as Costa Rica's liberal President José Figueres and Nicaragua's perennial Strongman Anastasio Somoza will...
...newspaper finds it the necessary, or at least the humane thing to do to stop and ask whether a given story should be reported, and when, and whether a life may be put in jeopardy by premature publication of all or certain details. We cannot blame the grief-stricken parents or the police for the indignation they have expressed...
...because he feared that it would cause great excitement which inevitably would permeate the Doud house and might possibly kill the President. Sitting alone in the dead of night with his slumbering patient, therefore, Howard Snyder was the only man in the world who knew that the President was stricken with a damaged heart...
...decision came in for stinging criticism from within the ranks of the Supreme Court itself. Justice Tom Clark, joined by Justices Stanley Reed and Sherman Minton in dissent, wrote: "We believe the court's order has stricken down the most effective weapon against subversive activity available to the Government...