Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salvaged clothing, holed up for several nights in a shelter rigged from signal-flare parachutes, kept their feet warm in below-freezing temperatures by tucking them into an oversized insulated ice bucket. Although Dalton had suffered a head injury in the crash, it seemed minor; they decided to strike out down the slope through the waist-deep snow. Pausing to rest on a ledge, the exhausted couple rigged a shaky windbreak and decided to stay put. There Dalton LeMasurier died of a brain hemorrhage...
...before, in perhaps the greatest intelligence victory of the war, the U.S. had managed to break the Japanese navy's principal code. Admiral Nimitz, thus forewarned of the Japanese grand strategy, now planned to throw his whole air strength against one part of the Japanese armada-the carrier strike force -before Admiral Yamamoto could concentrate overwhelmingly...
...Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and Frank Jack Fletcher, who well knew that the three carriers were about all that stood between the Japanese and California. Not far away, gliding serenely through a fog bank amid their great escort, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu prepared for their strike...
Mike Wallace, who took fire on Manhattan television this season as a taboo-smashing interviewer (TIME, Jan. 7), had been trying for three weeks to strike similarly bright sparks with his new ABC network show on Sunday night. Last week, bringing "reformed" Los Angeles Racketeer Mickey Cohen into the U.S. living room, Wallace struck up a blaze that threatened to make things hot for him and his network despite all efforts to douse...
Store owners patched up bullet holes, erased the scars of fire and reopened their shops after a week-long general strike...