Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unrest that caused the President of the U.S. to begin tossing in his bed one midnight last week was soon felt around the world. Although the shock was less than it had been when he was stricken last fall, the reaction was another remarkable demonstration of how much the hopes and aims of the U.S. and the world are linked to the man who occupies the American presidency...
Nobel Prize poet Thomas Stearns Eliot '10 was reported resting comfortably in a London Hospital yesterday, after he had been removed from the liner Queen Mary at Southhampton. Returning from an April lecture at the University of Minnesota and from visits to relatives in Cambridge, he was stricken with a coronary late last week while on the high seas...
...leaks as a wicker basket. Not to go into effect for a year, it provides only mild penalties-six months in jail or a maximum $27 fine -for "soliciting openly in public ... or embracing or seizing a prospective partner." On procurers, who roam the Japanese countryside offering poverty-stricken farmers cash loans in return for the indentured services of their daughters, penalties were tougher: up to three years in prison or a maximum $277 fine.*Toughest of all are the penalties on bordello mama-sans (madams): up to ten years in jail or a maximum $833 fine. Financial...
...heavily stricken and in darkness," wrote Henry James to a friend in the summer of 1910. His "ideal elder brother," Philosopher William James, had just died, and at 67, Henry was the sole survivor of four James brothers and one sister. As he sat down to write his autobiography, James must have felt that the face of life had not really smiled on him for two decades. His plays had pitiably flopped. At the opening-night curtain of one of them he was hooted off the London stage. His late novels, with their labyrinthine sentences and ideas, scarcely sold...
...Stricken with cancer of the jaw in later years, Freud was an uncomplaining patient. Often invited to leave Vienna (which he insisted he hated, so his staying there through 60 years of adult life cried aloud for a candid Freudian explanation), he stuck it out through the inflation after World War I and the advent of the Nazis. He even tried to stay when the Nazis marched in (March 1938). With such ill-assorted allies as the British Home Office (unanalyzed) and Princess Marie Bonaparte (analyzed to a fare-thee-well by Sigmund Freud himself), Ernest Jones flew in after...