Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Army is Turkey's, 200,000 strong, at present preoccupied with repairing the devastation of last month's monster earthquake. President General Inönü visited the stricken region not only to comfort his panicked peasantry (see cut, p. 31),but for military reasons. The thorough wreckage of northeastern Asia Minor has destroyed the railroads, without which Turkey's eastern defenses can hardly be supplied. Whether or not he expects to be at war by spring, last week President Inönü got from his adjourning Parliament emergency decree powers like those Premier Daladier...
...breakfasts; six destitute children shivering in an unheated room, waiting for the moment when their mother lighted a brief wood fire and cooked their one meal of corn bread; a mother and eight children living in one room in the house of a friend; a nine-year-old boy, stricken last year with spinal meningitis, without underwear, clothed only in a cotton blouse, a pair of pants; a mother recovering from childbirth, still confined to her bed, living on black coffee and cereal...
...Hundreds of thousands were homeless. They huddled under tents or in temporary shacks in the snow-covered fields, or in the ruins of their homes, shivering with terror and with cold. The stricken area (same latitude as New York City) suffered its worst cold snap of the winter, with temperatures as low as 22° below zero...
...White-Collar Criminality" was the title of a rip-snorting paper by Dr. Edwin Hardin Sutherland of Indiana University, last year's president of the American Sociological Society. He does not agree with many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food...