Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after midnight on Oct. 19, the sleeping garrison of Chamdo was awakened by the crash of explosions on the night air. Bright lights "like tiny suns" shredded the sky, as Chinese troops concealed outside the city set off hundreds of rounds of rockets, star shells and other pyrotechnics. Terror-stricken civilians ran through the streets. The cry went up that Chamdo was surrounded and resistance hopeless...
Stewardess Mary Frances Housley threw open the door. Men & women rushed for it. One woman jumped with her coat on fire, tore it off and ran from the scene. Pretty, 24-year-old "Frankie" Housley stood by the door, coolly advising her passengers to "take your time." One panic-stricken woman crawled along the aisle away from the door and toward the nose of the plane. Another woman screamed: "Get my baby." Frankie could have jumped. Instead, she turned back into the flaming cabin...
...cried the Republicans-including Tom Dewey-was so honest that he had contracted a vast debt of honor and had kept himself poverty-stricken for years paying it off. The intimation was plain: Dewey had not offered Hanley a political bribe to surrender the nomination; he had simply been rewarding an upstanding public servant for good works. Nevertheless, Senate investigators called on Old Joe just before the election to quiz him about the whole affair...
...breadbasket for the whole Middle East. One said, "Damn, I wish I were 35 instead of 55. Then I'd have 20 good years left in me to see this country bloom the way our own West has done." A man who can look at poverty-stricken Iran and see the Imperial Valley of California in the future obviously has not got his mind on mere survival or perimeters...
Amidst this onrush of decay, Ruby fights heroically to preserve the integrity of her own family. When her Scottish husband Gynt becomes a bird-loving mystic and proposes to search for wisdom in the Far East, Ruby is stricken, but has the courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story...