Word: striken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he finally reached Turkey, he stayed in Anatolia for a year with a vague sense of homecoming, although his severed past lay lower, near the coast. In Ankara, he was striken by the bleakness of the surrounding plateau, a feeling recalled by some lines in his journal...
...HOPE President Bok was striken by a temporary affliction yesterday, perhaps induced by the sweltering heat of the past few days and the presence of vast swarms of alumni, when he suggested at the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni that ROTC might return to Harvard...
...Force, a strategy which has wrought unspeakable devastation in the South Vietnamese countryside. Bluntly put, the "rationale" of urbanization has been to saturate the rural areas of the South with bombs, causing large numbers of surviving civilians to flee from areas under NLF control. Crowded into teeming, poverty-striken refugee camps outside South Vietnam's cities, growing numbers of the South Vietnamese people have fallen under the political and military control of the Saigon regime...