Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give up its fight for Indo-China. The upshot of the 1954 Geneva Conference, he declared, was that the U.S. got control of South Viet Nam, the Chinese Communists got North Viet Nam, and "all we Russians got out of it was bills." This, Vinogradov confided, did not strike Nikita Khrushchev as an extraordinarily happy state of affairs...
...Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
...Jerque." Truth was Winchell had voted in at least the last two national elections (Elsa claimed that she got her information from a 1952 New York Post series) and could prove it; in 1956, he had proudly posed for a picture as he entered a Manhattan precinct booth to strike a blow for Ike and Dick. Said Walter: "I said to NBC I want them to show that picture of me voting every Tuesday until I got bored. Not until they got bored, but until I got bored." Last week Jack Paar, henceforth answerable to NBC's brass...
U.A.W. SALARY CUTS are on way to offset current $200,000 monthly deficit caused by auto layoffs. Salaries of President Walter Reuther ($22,000) and 24 other executives will be slashed 10% ; some 100 staffers will be laid off. Big worry: U.A.W. now has $24 million in strike fund, far short of $50 million goal set for early June, when auto contracts will have expired...
...qualified pilot (making from $4,800 to $22,000 a year), like the two now in the cockpit, or a special mechanic-engineer (from $4,800 to $12,000) without pilot training? Last week, as a result of the fight, Western Air Lines was in its ninth week of strike, with all 83 flights grounded and corporate losses running to $35,000 daily. The threat of similar "third-man" strikes hangs ominously over Eastern, Pan American, T.W.A. and American Airlines, whose militant pilots only postponed a strike a fortnight ago on special pleas from the National Mediation Board...