Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bogus article, which also claimed that the Institute's president had been confined because of "a mysterious plague" unintentionally coincided with an actual outbreak of intestinal illness that had stricken more than 125 students just two days before the paper was published...
...wave of mysterious illness struck Canklow's children, caused headaches, jaundice and anemia! Twenty-five children were rushed to hospitals, dozens more were treated at home. On Christmas Eve, doctors took 200 blood tests, diagnosed the plague as lead poisoning. Then they checked back, learned that every stricken child came from a house where the battery cases had been used for fuel...
...inciting to revolution." Characteristically, today the AMA supports the voluntary health insurance pools it called "medical soviets" twenty years ago, and resists significant improvements on them. It has entered an active campaign to prevent Federal assistance in medical school construction, so that increased facilities for physicians' education have been stricken from the President's health bill. The Association has never proposed a new, constructive program of its own, yet it has consistently denied that special study commissions have the knowledge or indgment to set up a health program that can benefit the nation...
Five years ago, Crane Operator Henry Ciesla was stricken with amyotrophic lat eral sclerosis, an incurable chronic neurological disease. Paralyzed from the throat down, he was placed in an iron lung at Buffalo's Meyer Memorial Hospital; he was not expected to live more than a year. But Ciesla refused to die. With permanent breathing and feeding tubes in his throat and stomach, he stayed cheerful, watched TV via an overhead mirror. Last week a wall-panel fuse in the hospital blew out, stopped the life-preserving iron lung. Alone in his private room, Henry Ciesla died...
...Marcedusa (pop. 1,279) m the poverty-stricken central region of Calabria, the Communist mayor and the Communist council have switched in a body to the Christian Democrats...