Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whenever he could spare the money, which was seldom enough, Yonosuke Itakura, a poverty-stricken job printer, sent his sickly daughter Yoko from Tokyo to the hot springs in the Buddhist Temple of the Understanding Way in the mountains of Hakone. There, one day last summer, a landslide roared down the mountains burying the child, her mother and eight others beneath a varicolored rubble of clay, pumice, granite boulders and choking volcanic ash. Rescue workers searched among the debris for bodies, but before the remains of Yoko and her mother were found, the search was abandoned. Yonosuke and his sons...
...Mather's motion, the sentence was unanimously stricken from the proposed resolution...
...longer necessary to rebuke the sunny follies of the Dawnists . . . What now calls for diagnosis and cure is the contagious mood of universal discouragement spread on every side by a host of Giants of Despair. These have turned Doubting Castle into a mighty convention headquarters for panic-stricken editors, lecturers, candidates for public office and even clergy, who, disenchanted with prospects for the millennium, bid us now prepare as best we may for the approaching dissolution of every hope and help...
...LeRoy Neumayer, 23, a Compton. Calif, mechanic, who drove a 300-plus h.p. Class B (305 to 488 cu. in.) streamliner owned by auto supply shop operator Chet Herbert, 25, who used to race hotrods himself until he was stricken with polio. The records: a blazing 233.31 m.p.h. for five miles, 230.53 m.p.h. over a ten-kilometer distance...
...work goes slowly, but Matthew Smith does not let himself worry about that. Says he: "You have to think about what you've done by the end of the year-not at the end of the week or the day. If you think about that, you get panic-stricken...