Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particularly undiplomatic mood last week when he arose at Los Angeles to address the 1954 convention of the Red Cross. "Developments in recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich. When a disastrous tornado hit Flint last June, he said, the Red Cross spent $600,000 to help victims. Meanwhile, a special committee in Flint was raising more than...
...instance, the President related, a little girl (Sandra Miskelly, 18, of Keene, N.H.) took very great pleasure recently in coming to his office. Two years ago, when she had a date to see the White House, she was stricken with polio. In her determination to walk again, to fulfill that date, she had both legs broken. In that long two-year struggle she had had operations on her hands and her feet and her legs, but she finally got to the White House...
...Diaspora is refreshing after nothing. There is a point here, a trace of something that does not stink, a sort of negative odor that puts it above Spades." There are people who love a country, and they find it stricken, and there is a girl whose love is wider than a country. It is good that the authoress loves the country of which she writes, but there is a vapid, too-plaintive air that distracts the sympathy of the reader. "If you were born in Israel, you were a sabra, tough and tan on the outside, sweating...
...large-scale production," said People's Daily last November, "they will be unable to meet the needs of the nation . . . and will also cause difficulties for national industrial construction ... If the peasants do not unite to carry out large-scale production . . . there will surely be many poverty-stricken peasants." In short, if there is not enough to go around, the peasants themselves will be the first to starve...
...bulldozers are as much a source of wonder as the iron horse was to the Indians a century ago. In these countries, M-K has caused roses to grow in deserts, electric power and wealth to flow from forbidding mountain streams, new skills to enrich poverty-stricken natives. In all his endeavors, Harry Morrison does not forget that he is a hardheaded American businessman working to make a profit. But that is not his only objective...