Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autumn skies. To the northwest stood Longs Peak, 14,255 ft., and to the southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...
Perhaps this self-effacing generosity was one of the qualities that brought Mr. Prochnow to the attention of President Eisenhower. Or perhaps the President, who has always appreciated political impartiality, was impressed by such Prochnow opigrams as: "Hard times are those periods when the right to strike seems less important than the right to work." At any rate, we wish Mr. Prochnow luck in his new job at the State Department, and we hope he thinks up many more ways "to point out the foibles of men, to goad them into action, to shatter their pride, and to awaken humor...
Last week, as French schools opened for the fall term, only 22 Ifs pupils showed up. The rest were out on a parent-instigated strike. Petitions were sent to the District Inspector of Education in Caen and even to the Ministry in Paris. Farmers and aproned mothers paraded the streets with placards denouncing the headmaster as a "solid...
California's first test case of its 20-year-old law came as the result of a story Newsman Howard wrote about an apple-pickers' strike. In it he quoted an A.F.L. Teamsters' union official as saying union members would refuse to handle apples picked by non-union members. The growers' attorney then subpoenaed Howard in an attempt to prove that an illegal secondary boycott existed...
...Barber stands at the opposite pole from Huckleberry Finn or David Copperfield, and it may strike some people as more precious than priceless. But the reader can justly tell Author Reid, in the words of Squeaker, the learned rat: "It's universally granted that you're a most agreeable little boy-much above the average...