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Word: strikingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, TIME took a called third strike-or did not get to the plate at all. Somehow Babe Ruth never made the cover. Brooklyn Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year the week his cover hit the stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Strategic Air Command, a 2,000-bomber force capable in a single sortie of hitting the U.S.S.R. with 2,000 times the total explosive power of World War II, took K.'s rocket-rattling with professional seriousness. SAC began to cut down the "reaction time" of its strike force-hundreds of bombers-from two hours to 15 minutes. This was the Air Force's best estimate of the warning SAC bases would get before an enemy missile strike (TIME, Nov. 25). If an "instant readiness" deterrent force was to be any deterrent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Safety Catch On the Deterrent | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...addition to the Quincy project, the strike had halted progress on the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the International Legal Studies Center, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute on Divinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Construction Workers End Strike; Will Recommence Work on Quincy | 4/24/1958 | See Source »

Cecil A. Roberts, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, reported earlier in the week that the Legal Studies Center was the only project not completely shut down. Roberts said that he felt that an end to the strike this week would make it possible for lost time to be made up on all projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Construction Workers End Strike; Will Recommence Work on Quincy | 4/24/1958 | See Source »

This inning began with three straight bases-on-balls, as Brigham temporarily lost all contact with home-plate. He zeroed in again in time to strike out the next two Bruin hitters. But Nelson and Prouty followed with singles to bring home the three men who had walked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Late-Inning Hurling Defeats Brown Squad, 4-3 | 4/24/1958 | See Source »

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