Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born in Russia, the eldest son of a poverty-stricken family, he now bosses RCA's thousands of employees and directs the battle being waged with CBS over color television...
...remember how stricken we were when 47 Jews were killed in a pogrom in the Ukraine. We had days of mourning and fasting. But six million! That dreadful calamity-and the whole spiritual and material crisis of our time-are bringing American Jews back to the faith of their fathers...
...despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed...
...number called "Betting on A Man"--a song that can only be described in terms of suffering. Its lyrics take the form of contrived baby talk, and Betty Grable spits them out as if they were wads of gum. The second unusual number comes when she is supposedly stricken with amnesia and reverts to her old profession of vaudeville acting. At this point the picture takes a turn for the better; she sings "It's a Hot Night in Alaska," a Dixieland piece and the show's best scene. The action between scenes then speeds up with the introduction...
...plane hurtled above the crowd upside down, started to roll over and up. Then with an eerie roar it ripped downward, crushed spectators, smashed six cars, including an ambulance. In an instant, the happy crowd was turned into a panic-stricken, blood-spattered mass of humanity screaming in terror and pain...