Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain. Last week black storm clouds churned over land that had known drought for four long years-over west Texas and the gasping Panhandle, over southern and western Oklahoma, over eastern New Mexico-and the water came drumming down. It rained for days. In many an area, the drought-stricken found themselves the victims of floods...
Mireille's handwriting and learns that she has registered at a Left Bank hotel. Even proud, logical Lucienne reacts with a look of stupor and alarm to the baffling news, but expresses a violent professional conviction: nobody could be alive after 48 hours under water. The guilt-stricken Ravinel takes it harder; he is convinced his wife is a ghost, and he goes to pieces puzzling over how Mireille can be dead and alive at the same time...
...Jersey governorship in 1910, Tumulty joined Wilson's camp, became his closest political adviser. As a highly effective political balance to his scholarly chief, gregarious Joe Tumulty reveled in political dogfights, handled White House patronage, but was never noted for his verbal discretion. In 1919, when Wilson was stricken by cerebral thrombosis, Tumulty suggested that he be declared incapable of holding office and allow Vice President Thomas Marshall to take over. The two men parted; Tumulty opened a law office, wrote two autobiographical accounts of the Wilson Administration...
Stephen D. Tuttle, associate professor of Music and resident tutor at Eliot House, died at the home of Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music, last Friday morning. Aged 46, Tuttle was stricken with a heart attack, almost without warning...
...midst of a widening fame, Rosenzweig was stricken with a neuromuscular disease which paralyzed him. For eight years he lived on in his Frankfurt apartment, finally unable to speak or move, except for some power of movement in his right thumb. Even with the aid of his wife and nurses, he could write only by moving his thumb over a plate containing letters of the alphabet...