Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epithet "strikebreaker" at the crews of Royal Navy tugs which were towing the 81,237-ton Queen Mary out to sea. Without quite knowing how or why, Britain had drifted to the verge of a work stoppage which all the headlines said would be the biggest since the general strike...
Railway union leaders rejected a government wage award yesterday and threatened to add another nation-wide strike to Britain's labor disputes in the shipbuilding and heavy machinery industries. The railroad strike threat developed 24 hours after 2 1/2 million factory workers received union orders to begin a "snowball" walkout next Saturday in manufacturing plants throughout the nation...
LONDON, March 19--Union leaders tonight ordered 2 1/2 million factory workers to join in a phased strike aimed at paralyzing Britain's manufacturing industries by April...
Seventy shipyards already are idle by a walkout of 200,000 men. Taken together, the two strikes could bring the British economy almost to a standstill in the worst industrial chaos since the general strike...
...running only fast enough to win," says Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick, hen-scratching strike, Jumbo is positive that his protégé, who once ran the mile in 3:59 in California last June, can do it in 3:55 if pressed...