Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow policy was to sabotage U.S. war production. Dennis' man Christoffel was able to strike the plant and close it up tight for 76 days. Allis-Chalmers was then manufacturing machinery for war; the strike was one of the costliest work stoppages of the whole U.S. war-production effort...
...haired Ann Sabljak of the Young Communist League, wriggled her way into the Methodist Episcopal Church's old Epworth League. One ex-Red remembers a Sunday night when Ann got an Epworth League discussion group around to agreeing that if Christ were alive today he would be a strike leader and a revolutionist...
...Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever tried to strike me." But even if patients should hit an attendant, Brand says, the attendant should not strike back, but "put them in a side room and tell them to lie down...
...peace delegates, Boss Mao had drafted an ultimatum, sent it south to Nanking by special messenger. Its chief demand: within four days, the Nationalist armies must be transferred to Communist command. Otherwise Red troops, strengthened in the past months by fresh conscripts and regular reinforcements from Manchuria, would strike across the Yangtze...
Washington readers could not remember a time when their daily newspapers had missed publication-until last week. Then a wildcat strike of A.F.L. pressmen shut down the capital's four dailies for a day, until the International Union ordered the strikers back. This week the pressmen struck again, after Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had tried all night to settle the dispute over wages and hours. A.F.L. stereotypers walked out too. The second strike, blessed by the International's officers, hit the afternoon papers first-the Star and the Daily News-and shut them down. Pickets also appeared...