Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabs read it and blew up. They insisted that the council must strike the whole paragraph out: such words might commit the four Arab states to more than a military truce with the Israelis. Syria's Delegate Ahmed el Shu-kairy said flatly that to satisfy the Arabs "the establishment of Israel, its membership in the U.N. . . will have to be revoked...
Russia's Arkady Sobolev, grasping quickly at a chance to score with the Arabs, announced that his government would disown its words and vote to strike them from the resolution. Sir Pierson Dixon, after stiffly refusing to take out "five little words which are really a glimpse of the obvious," received new orders from "a higher authority," namely Sir Anthony Eden. At the next meeting the British and the U.S. yielded "in the interests of unanimity." Dropping the paragraph the Arabs objected to, the council voted a watered-down resolution calling on the secretary-general to keep using...
...answer is no: Since the purpose of art teaching is chiefly to impart knowledge and skills, it should be as scientific in spirit as Albers makes his courses. But in terms of his own art the answer is harder. If the paint-slinging frenzies of the abstract expressionists strike most people as being plain convulsive, Albers' pristine experiments give rise to the opposite complaint: that they are too tricky and cold...
MASS PICKETING and other forms of strike violence can be halted by states despite overall federal jurisdiction in such matters, says U.S. Supreme Court. In case involving U.A.W. strike against Wisconsin's Kohler Co. (TIME, April 18, 1955), court ruled that while NLRB normally handles unfair labor practices, federal laws do not prevent a state from stepping...
...participation of non-student elements, particularly union workers. These are the people who feel most acutely the economic presence of the Negro. They are also the people who can compensate for more through the feelings of superiority which the Negro's subservient position permits them. Adept at strike tactics, these ardent white supremacists were more than a match for police, and of course, the University had no control over them whatsoever...