Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike of construction laborers in the Boston area was settled yesterday, enabling contractors to begin pouring the foundation for Quincy House tomorrow, and to resume work on three other large construction projects in the University...
Mediation by the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration has been in progress since the second week of the strike. Hod-carriers and construction laborers' unions agreed yesterday to accept a 30 cents an hour wage increase over a three year period, half of their original demands...
...Rebel Country. At the other end of the island, in Santiago, the strike, though more effective, was suppressed with equal resolution and bloodshed; 38 were killed. But even as the strike was failing, Castro's irregulars in the rugged Sierra Maestra were fighting on. Nipping down to El Cobre the day after the frustrated strike, Castro men grabbed the town, ranged the streets, and upon pulling out touched off the 30-ton dynamite stock of a construction-supply company. The thunderous explosion shattered windows in Santiago ten miles away...
...wear them down when they come into the open. He has also offered $100,000 for the "head of Fidel Castro." But though he must face a nagging stalemate, in winning last week's round Batista cost the rebels heavily in dynamism and morale. A new general-strike attempt will be harder to mount than the foiled try-particularly bucking the prosperity of Cuba's current $2 billion-a-year national income. And Castro, never well armed, is suffering so badly from shortage of guns and ammunition that last week he denounced his principal backer, rich ex-President...
...clumsiness and uncertainty. Boom dollies were knocked over; commercials and credits were run twice, or upside down, or not at all; sound faded away or leaked sudden bursts of studio chatter and laughter. A few shows, regularly broadcast live, were replaced by film substitutes. But most programs-and the strike-rolled on as scheduled...