Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public works, his Christian Democratic ticket won the biggest municipal vote (101,000) in Florence's history. But, unhappily for La Pira, the newly adopted proportional representation left the Christian Democrats with only 25 out of 60 seats on the municipal council. La Pira found himself obliged to strike up an unwritten alliance with the council's Social Democratic members...
...Sense of Destiny. Under such provocation, resistance spread. In a sunny front room of his second-floor apartment, former President Alberto Lleras Camargo asked the city's leading businessmen and bankers to join in a commercial strike...
...Repetto gave up base hits in the first and second. The first of five strike-outs, plus a neat double play from Bob Hastings to Bobbie Cleary to John Simourian closed out the first inning...
...original notion behind NATO's inception was the establishment of a deterrent military force which, in the event of war with the USSR, would give the U.S. Strategic Air Command time to strike one deadly, retaliative blow which would presumably bring the Kremlin to its knees. Vital to this concept was America's monopoly of nuclear weapons. When this monopoly was broken, nuclear warfare became the vital element in military thinking, and America revamped its strategy along the lines of "massive retaliation." The advent of nuclear weapons called for a reduction of ground forces, and in 1955 NATO's goal...
Leaders in other industries made equally good showings. Westinghouse Electric Corp. reported profits of 82? a share on record first-quarter sales after suffering a loss in the strike-idled first quarter of 1956. General Dynamics Corp. showed a profit rise of 103% (from 56? to $1.13 a share) on a sales increase of 93%. The Union Pacific Railroad Co. increased its profits from 67? a share to 73?, and Northern Pacific Railway profits rose from 54? to 73?. Earnings of Mack Trucks, Inc. rose 33% above the 1956 first-quarter level (from 89? to $1.18 a share...