Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucas' enthusiasm, what had happened to Billy was really no miracle. He was a victim of myasthenia gravis, a mysterious, uncommon disease which usually strikes adolescents or the elderly. Infant cases are rare, and Billy's was especially hard for the doctors to diagnose because he was stricken so soon after birth, when cerebral palsy is the likeliest explanation of symptoms such...
...news had come out at the end of a polio season. "It gives us time to prepare," he said, "and time to think it over soberly without a background of emotion and hysteria." Dr. Wermer admitted that reserving G.G. for areas with proven epidemics means that the first children stricken in any region will be denied its benefits...
...passport deadline approached last week, a panic-stricken exodus began. About 6,000 Moslems in India fled eastward into East Pakistan. Out of East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside...
...CRIMSON'S parody informed the Dartmouth student body that seven members of the varsity had been stricken with food poisoning, Shaken by this fake news, the Green lost, and the Dartmouth has been at a loss ever since...
...when none of these were successful, the criminal was degraded to the bottom of the class, his name was stricken from the College lists, or he was expelled...