Word: stricken
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Black people came out of the 19th century fleeing the shackles of slavery. They entered the 20th century to face discrimination, stereotyping, more domination and a sense of uncertainty. They go into the 21st century with the mother continent of Africa as turmoil stricken as ever. But blacks have the conviction that the battle must go on. The black is the Person of the Century with a tale of struggle and survival yet to be matched in the course of human history. YAHAYA MAIBE London
...height of his powers, when he was stricken with polio and became a paraplegic. He had been an athlete, a man who had loved to swim and sail, to play tennis and golf, to run in the woods and ride horseback in the fields. Determined to overcome his disability, he devoted seven years of his life to grueling physical therapy. In 1928, however, when he accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, he understood that victory would bring an end to his daily therapy, that he would never walk under his own power again. For the remainder...
...keeping Chechnya under Russian control is stricken with almost as many problems. The devastation the Russian army has left in its wake has done irreparable damage to any sort of legitimacy the Russian government might have had to rule the Chechens. Russia recently tried to organize a loyalist government--the only Chechen who would co-operate with them was a former mayor of Grozny in Russian prison following his conviction for embezzlement. In every shelled village, everyone who is killed or maimed leaves behind several family members who fiercely hate the Russian army and its rule...
There are a few generalizations to be made about anime. The characters' faces often have the preposterously chiseled look of Western superheroes, as defined by U.S. pulp illustrators. The animation itself is quite limited: when a mouth moves, the rest of the face stays still, stricken. You won't find, say, the gestural verve of a Tex Avery wolf or the behavioral subtlety--simply put, the great acting--of Daffy Duck under the pencil of Chuck Jones. The form's genius is in the stories' breadth and daring. The glory is in the graphic richness of the landscapes: either idyllically...
Papandreou--who spent a year at Harvard in 1992-1993 as a fellow for the Center for International Affairs--says Greece would actively support Turkey's candidacy for membership in the European Union, and has been happy with bilateral relations since both nations have been stricken by earthquakes during the past few months...