Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbol," explained Mr. Truman. "Tito controls the largest fighting force in Europe except the Soviet Union and . . . these forces constitute an important element in the defense of Western Europe against Soviet aggression." The President wanted Congress, when it reconvened Nov. 27, to approve emergency funds to feed the drought-stricken Yugoslavs. As a stopgap until Congress took up the matter, ECA had already diverted $11,500,000 worth of flour from its Italian and German stocks. The Export-Import Bank rushed off a quick $6,000,000 for drought relief out of the $55 million in U.S. credits already granted...
Confronted with the letters, Dr. Campbell confessed, said she needed the money for "domestic expenses" and to build a new house. Shocked friends of Dr. Campbell declared her financial woes were purely imaginary. She had a substantial income, often gave free treatment to poverty-stricken Spanish-Americans...
Hate & Terror. That was the first sign of trouble stirring in the U.S.'s tiny (3.435 sq. mi), poverty-stricken Caribbean territory-trouble which quickly spread to the steps of President Truman's residence in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Soon violence erupted in a blaze of gunfire all over the island. Seventy Nationalists seized the town of Jayuya, killing four policemen, firing the post office, police station, Selective Service headquarters and 20 homes. In Ponce, Mayaguez, Utuado, half a dozen other towns, Nationalists attacked police stations with small arms and Molotov cocktails...
When the atom bomb landed on Allied headquarters in Paris, the boiling waters of the Seine surged into the streets of the stricken city. There appeared to be "nothing else in the world but a crimson-purple glare and sound, deafening, all-embracing, continuing sound ... A great ball, of crimson-purple fire, like a maddening living thing that seemed to be whirling about very rapidly amidst a chaos of falling masonry that seemed to be ... burrowing into [the earth] like a blazing rabbit...
With Coak held incommunicado, panic-stricken Crimeds were again at a loss to find a prognosticator for tomorrow's game. They have just 24 hours left...