Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical authorities waited apprehensively today for the first sterility case among the 14 University and Radcliffe students stricken with mumps...
...dangerous illness. But if the vaccine is safe, as it seems to be, then it can be given to a lot of children in an area where polio is expected to be epidemic. If few or none of the inoculated children get polio, while others around them are stricken, the answer will...
Broadway's Best (Jo Stafford; Columbia LP). Several of these eight songs deserve to be ranked with the "best," e.g., Embraceable You, Night and Day, Come Rain or Come Shine, but not even Jo's pretty voice is appealing enough to survive the grief-stricken tempos...
...tooth. Two minor clerks in General Eisenhower's office, presumably not so prudent as Mr. Dulles, have been consigned to outer darkness for their past indiscretions. And the music of Aaron Copland, a man who is said to have "a long and questionable record of questionable affiliations," has been stricken from the program of the inaugural concert to be held in Washington this evening...
Died. Thomas Sugrue, 45, journalist and author (There Is a River, Starling of the White House), who was stricken by a rare form of arthritis in 1937, spent the rest of his life in the painful confines of a wheelchair; of complications following a bone operation; in Manhattan. His controversial 1952 book, A Catholic Speaks His Mind, was a biting criticism of U.S. Catholicism ("booming, aggressive, materialistic, socially ambitious, and inclined to use its membership as a paranoid pressure group...