Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, District 50's tactics were highhanded. They would not go into an election to find out whether the U.M.W. represented anybody at all. They counted not so much on their actual strength as the fear they could stir up. New Yorkers well remembered the 1934 cab strike, when 5,000 enraged hackies ran wild through midtown Manhattan, overturning and busting up cabs, fighting cops and stoning non-strikers...
Power of Suggestion. In New Orleans, after the new Pitt Theater showed a movie called Strike It Rich, the management reported to police that someone had stolen the theater's 750-lb. safe containing...
...kind but certainly a good evening's reading. If he had made his American as alive and interesting as his Italians, and bothered less about making all hands talk like characters out of Ernest Hemingway, he might have written a very good novel. His ending will strike some readers as tragic, some as sugary-depending on what the reader makes of it. Altogether, pliable ending and all, it seems made to order for Gary Cooper, who has just paid $40,000 for the screen rights...
Steelmen were not sure how long they could keep up their overcapacity production; the normal summer letdown was sure to cut output somewhat. But they thought that, barring a long coal strike, all industries would be able to get all the steel they wanted within six months...
...arise. One such problem is what constitutes an act of aggression. Secretary of State Acheson has said that a purely internal revolution is not aggression, but if that revolution is obviously promoted by a foreign power, it is aggression. This is a difficult borderline doctrine. Another problem is to strike the essential balance in channelling European economy between recovery and rearment. A major purpose of the Pact is to relieve small nations of overburdening war expenditure. It would be disastrous if Pact Mutual defeat plans induced an african spirt which overshadowed recovery...