Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Twining, more than 1,000 Strategic Air Command B-47 jet bombers flew nonstop combat training missions averaging 8,000 miles each over North America and the arctic. "This is the first time that the nation's Strategic Air Force has tested the operational capability of its strike force in such large numbers during such a short period of time. These missions demonstrated our capability to launch a retaliatory strike force in minimum time...
Perhaps the most important fact of the exercise was that Operation Powerhouse, immense as it was, represented only a part of SAC's striking power. Excluded from the operation were SAC's B-52s, B-36s, F-84Fs (fighters with a nuclear strike capability) and a large number of B-47s. These were held in readiness against the event of actual war-for which SAC has stood on round-the-clock guard for the last eight years...
...area where Turks predominate." Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff denounced the British plan as "illiberal and undemocratic" and angrily pressed Greece's demand for a U.N. debate on self-determination for Cyprus. In Cyprus itself, the port of Famagusta was closed down by a protest strike...
...height of the great 1919 steel strike, the U.S. press carried so little news of the dispute that 32 labor editors decided to start a cooperative, nonprofit news service solely to cover union activities. The agency: Federated Press. Since 1922 the F.P. has been run by Carl Haessler, a Detroit newsman, publicist, e.g., with the Institute for Mortuary Research, and a self-styled "anticapitalist" who was court-martialed for refusing to put on an Army uniform in World War I, later went to Alcatraz for leading a prison strike. Not long after its founding, F.P. began to toe the Socialist...
...ends up with her in the crib after she coyly suggests that he take a nap ("Yew c'd curl up and let the slats daown"). Later, when the heroine murmurs "I feel cool and rested, rested and cool for the first time in my life," it may strike some moviegoers that the language of Tennessee Williams, no less than his subject matter, often seems to have been borrowed from one of the more carelessly written pornographic pulps...