Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill and wrestled with the question of arms shipments to the Middle East (see below). Concerned by the plight of Western European nations currently suffering one of their worst winters in recent years, Ike also announced that the U.S. stood ready to rush surplus agricultural commodities to the blizzard-stricken areas. Presumably, too, he was still thinking toward a decision on the second term issue. But as the week rolled on politicians and newsmen alike were becoming convinced that the decision was a foregone conclusion. A poll of White House correspondents who had made the trip to Georgia showed that...
...same, Tallulah was not only, in her own way, often remarkable, but she never really distorted the sense of the play. There was about her something not just Southern, but stricken: the horror aroused by the past, the clutched hope for the future, the crumbling desperation of the moment. If she missed pathos, she was fumbling, at least, after tragedy. The whole performance, indeed, might have come off a real tour de force-except that Tallulah's inherent force was the one thing alien to the part...
Other versions are even farther away from the original. Les Paul (Capitol) gives it a zithery sound, Tito Puente (Victor) a Latin beat, and Billy Vaughan (Dot) features an off-key whistler. But most versions retain the original's deliberately poverty-stricken melody-five of its eight phrases end on the same querulous note...
...Three -and - a -half -month -old Daniel Patrick Benson, believed to be the first child ever born with polio in the U.S., was reported showing improvement as he posed for his first photograph with his mother, Mrs. Patricia Benson, a 26-year-old Madison, Wis. graduate nurse who was stricken with polio when she was pregnant. The youngster's birth was normal, but he was born with paralysis of both legs and the left arm. This fact upset the generally accepted theory that a child does not contract polio in the womb...
...Rutland County, Vt. in 1894, when more than 100 children were stricken. The woman in the wheelchair was 64-year-old Miss Sarah Jones, the only victim of the epidemic now alive...