Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's record advertising, up more than 10% over 1954, was one big reason for the newsprint shortage. Newspapers were scrounging extra supplies from such sources as music publishers and slump-stricken comic-book proprietors; they were also borrowing from each other...
There was a momentary burst of applause for Gaitskell the winner, which quickly fell into a painful silence at the sight of Morrison's stricken look. The man who had helped shape British Socialism for 35 years had been rejected by his colleagues with a derisory handful of votes in favor of a man who was a newly elected M.P. when Morrison was Deputy Prime Minister. "It was the most terrible experience of my political life," said one Labor M.P. later. "It was like watching a man being beaten to death and knowing that we were nearly every...
...Louis and two other American airliners heard Flight 476 reporting a fire in No. 2 engine. Three minutes later one of the airliners heard: "Springfield, are you reading 476? We have a bad engine fire." That was the last message from Flight 476. Two minutes later (12:22) the stricken airplane, trailing flames and smoke, was seen heading for the Army field at Fort Leonard Wood. Just short of Runway 14 the right wing came off, and the airplane crashed in heavy timber, killing all passengers (27) and crew (three...
...lusty appetites. Her private life was a steaming contusion. In 1935 she married Goffredo Aiessandnm, a movie director. One day she trailed him to a rendezvous with another woman, hinted her displeasure by ramming her car into his. They were separated. Anna loves her son Luca now 13 and stricken with polio, with a fierce protective passion that motivates much of her acting. She is grimly determined to leave him rich when she dies, and she probably will: under the soft schedule of Italian taxes, her take-home pay over the last ten years has been tremendous For several years...
...additional precaution, the city's name was stricken from the engine's side as it went on its sepulchered way. Lynch complained that the fire department "had pulled a fast one by quitting Cambridge early with only the driver and six girls along...