Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frenchmen opted for the old rules, De Gaulle retired to the sidelines and sat there for a decade, croaking, like Cassandra, of impending disaster. Last week his prophecies, like Cassandra's, were being borne out, and the kind of hour for which he was created was about to strike once again. For De Gaulle, as Historian Herbert Luethy noted, is essentially a "politician of catastrophe," and it was catastrophe that stalked France last week...
...eyes are set in a face that looks like a well-worn chopping block. For all his outward appearance of strength. Massu has frequently betrayed an inner uncertainty. Like his hero De Gaulle, he has often wondered whether to suffer under authority that he believes is wrong or to strike out alone. At Suez, irritated at the slowness of the British landings, Massu tormented himself with the idea of leapfrogging ahead against orders...
...newspaper Telegraph (a man believed also to be a disciplined Communist) was assassinated outside his Beirut home. Who killed him? Nobody knew. Some suspected that he might have been murdered by the Communists themselves to create a martyr. The pro-Nasser National Front immediately called a general strike against the regime. "Crush the despot and save Lebanon!" cried chunky ex-Premier Saeb Salam...
...fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched in dismay as their fellow rail workers coolly crossed picket lines and kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen blew a whistle on the strike. The ailing U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS), which in 1956 withdrew a demand for the right to drop firemen so that...
Cosmic Radiation. Space's swirling storms of atomic particles cause mutations (mostly undesirable for survival) in bread mold, probably will have the same effect in humans if they strike the genes in the reproductive system. Unsuspected until this month's report by Iowa Physicist Dr. James Van Allen was the intense radiation storm encountered 600 miles from the earth by Explorer satellites. Still to be learned is whether this danger zone stretches from pole to pole. If so, the space traveler may have to hurry through it, as Dr. Simons says, "like running fast through a grass fire...