Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swaying house to save their two-month-old baby; they were killed by the falling roof, but the baby, protected by his overturned crib, was saved. Next day the earth shook again, and many fled for the hills in fear that the island would slide beneath the sea. Panic-stricken Cephalonia police radioed to the mainland: "We are all sinking . . . The inhabitants ... are mad with fear. All is crumbling down...
...provincial capital of Goiania (pop. 55,430), Haroldo Gurgel, 22, knew that he had made some powerful political enemies. When he left his hotel one morning last week, four gunmen jumped him, dragged him to the city's central square. There, before a crowd of horror-stricken townspeople, they pushed Gurgel against a wall, pistol-whipped him half-unconscious, then pumped twelve bullets into him as he tried to crawl away. Two men who tried to help him were wounded. After that, the murderers calmly pocketed their pistols and strolled away, while the bystanders cautiously moved in to pick...
...drought-stricken Texas last week, a dust storm blew up over the Government's $150-million emergency relief program. In his weekly Rails Banner, Editor Ernest Joiner declared: "Fully half of the aid given here has gone into the hands of wealthy men. This writer, for one, is damned tired of his hard-earned money going into the pockets of wealthy...
Note with interest your article concerning federal emergency aid for drought-stricken Texas ranchers [TIME, July...
...rushed up a hill screaming hillbilly songs and dived into a North Korean bunker with their hand grenades, blowing it up. There were also men who went to pieces in the strain of battle, and dashed forward, screaming and crying, to be cut down by the enemy. Other panic-stricken men "bugged out," or groveled in their foxholes, clawing at the earth. He turned away and hoped that would not happen...