Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy factory is an easy subject for infra-red observation. Much subtler tricks are possible, such as tracing narrow roads through heavy forests. Military vehicles are hard to hide: a tank that has turned off a road to take cover under thick foliage sends heat waves that strike through the leaves, telling just where it is. Rivers show clearly : at night their surface water is generally warmer than the leaves of vegetation on their banks. Boats leave conspicuous wakes by mixing warm surface water with colder water from below...
...furnished yellow clapboard house in Shady, N.Y., surrounded by instruments that testify to his lifelong passion for sounds: Persian drums, Oriental flutes, a set of four resonant Pyrex bowls that he used in his Symphony No. 11 ("When my wife and I are out shopping," says Cowell, "we always strike things speculatively...
...Spanish police: "The sooner the better." Last week the trouble came, and Dictator Franco and his police were ready for it. In the ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene of labor disturbances 16 months ago, 2,800 Basque workers at Spain's major shipyard began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract (in Spain...
...three tense days, management all along Bilbao's dirty Nervion River industrial complex waited to see whether, as a result of these harsh moves, the unrest would spread. But the workers were unorganized and without strike funds. On the fourth day the shipyard posted a notice: "As of today, job applications will be considered." Berets in hand, the Basques meekly filed over the long concrete overpass that carried them from their grimy slum homes across the railroad tracks and into the shipyard again. Without yielding an inch, Franco had won, at least for now-even though the inflation...
...contradictions, have more than higher wages on their minds. Packinghouse workers demanded that the government import more Argentine cattle to provide work. A group of Montevideo doctors struck for duty-free automobiles. Teachers-college students struck for preference in teaching appointments. There is a growing tendency toward brief general strikes in support of particular union's demands. Communists, tolerated by the government, energetically back every strike, prolonging each as long as possible...