Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noble lines to his credit; TIME'S Dec. 5 august dispenser of "sweet praise" picked a sour line to hold aloft and admire: "Like most good poets, Hall knows that 'Life is hell, but death is worse.' " There will be a moment of silence while we strike from the list of "most good poets": Shakespeare - "O, amiable lovely death"; Whitman - "Lovely and soothing death"; Shelley - "How wonderful is death...
This order, which Stilwell later was appalled to discover had been far too harshly carried out by overzealous subordinates, provoked a sitdown strike among the Marauders. As a mobile, one-shot force, they had succeeded brilliantly in harassing action, losing only 424 men in combat while inflicting tremendous casualties on the Japanese. But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits-while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action. The Marauders were neither prepared nor equipped for the Myitkyina battle. They were withdrawn in June, disbanded in August...
Education: The best Britain provides-private prep school, Winchester, then New College, Oxford, where he took first-class honors in "Modern Greats" (politics, philosophy, economics) and first developed an interest in Socialism. During the General Strike of 1926, other students swarmed off to man buses or unload ships; Hugh got himself a union card and distributed the strikers' newspapers. When a fond aunt offered to subsidize him in an army career, Hugh replied: "My future belongs to the working class...
...since a prolonged strike of the New York Newspaper Guild drove the Brooklyn Eagle out of business nine months ago, have almost 3,000,000 borough-proud Brooklynites had a daily newspaper they could call their own. Last week the Brooklyn Daily, after five modest years as a neighborhood paper, took on new staffers and features (including some from the Eagle), and expanded to fill a borough-wide role. But it promptly ran into labor trouble. The independent Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union called a boycott to force the new paper to break its distribution contracts and to employ...
...prose style that is rich in metaphor and, at times, very close to poetry. The plot, in contrast, is extremely simple, telling the story of a young railroad worker with artistic inclina-who leaves his ambitions and the girl who loves him to become a leader in the strike...