Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly timed. The cartoon portrayed President Eisenhower carrying Vice President Nixon on his back, with the caption: "You're going to run again, aren't we?" Herblock had drawn the cartoon before Ike's heart attack, and many U.S. papers carried it the day Ike was stricken. Last week the Fund for the Republic decided Herblock was too hot to handle, canceled his TV show. Official reason: he is too political. By permitting him to take sides in political controversies, the Fund was afraid it might lose its tax-exempt status...
...only real recourse for residents of flood-stricken towns, therefore, is to turn to the federal government for aid. While the federal disaster relief program helps considerably to finance rebuilding programs, most federal funds go to community treasuries and thence into public works projects; the individual householder receives very little direct benefit from disaster relief. Only a new form of federal aid, providing voluntary flood damage insurance, can assure individual sufferers of a clear road to economic recovery...
...border around 1873. Each of the children filled out the personally wrapped packages with the most precious gift of all: two sticks of bubble gum. Showered with such important gifts, the President of the U.S. laughed more and felt better than he had at any time since he was stricken...
...link running between the President and the presidency. Adams had established residence in a two-room bachelor officer's suite at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, and had taken an office right across the hall from the office the President used before he was stricken. By 7:30 a.m. on each working day, Sherman Adams was at his plain metal desk in the uncarpeted, uncurtained office that seemed as flintlike and efficient as the man who was occupying it. Seated there, Adams fitted the nickname that he acquired back in New Hampshire: "the Rock...
...combat a polio outbreak in Pearl Harbor, the Navy started inoculating some 22,000 married officers, sailors and marines and their families in the first mass Salk immunization of adults. So far, 19 people have been stricken, the majority of them with paralytic polio, and one pregnant service wife has died. Dr. Robert S. Poos, head of the Navy's Preventive Medicine Unit at Pearl Harbor, blames the outbreak on the mixing up of "new susceptibles and carriers from all over the world," wants to see the Salk vaccine made one of the compulsory shots given to servicemen...