Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Invoking the 1954 Communist Control Act for the first time, Attorney General Brownell last week charged before the Subversive Activities Control Board that the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers is dominated by Communists. If the charge sticks, the Red-tainted union-now on strike in the copper industry-will lose its rights under the Labor-Management Relations Act. The Government hopes that the members will throw out their Red bosses...
...beard, and dropping remarks like "Lovely weather on the Riviera last week." He had launched a career as a spy, impersonating a Vichy officer in occupied France. Caught and jailed in Toulon, Wintle sharply ticked off his guards for their slovenly appearance. He went on a 14-day hunger strike until they agreed to shave. On his third try, he escaped...
...Russians very evidently came to Geneva not to reach settlements, but to strike an attitude: the attitude of reasonable men willing to let bygones be bygones, even if most of the bygones they wanted overlooked were their own. They came asking for respectability. And they figured that they would get it merely by being there and showing themselves well-behaved. Thus the Russians could not lose. They had to give up nothing to get what they wanted. So they gave up nothing, and showed themselves amiable...
...said he joined while at the Eagle after Newspaper Guild organizers convinced him that "as an active member of the Guild, I should be a member of the Communist Party, which . . . was making the actual decisions in the Guild." He broke with the party during a 1937 strike at the Eagle, he said, because he was asked to take part in beating up a nonstriking fellow worker. His secret party record dogged him for 15 years, and three years ago he resigned as boss of the Government radio station in Germany, RIAS. rather than face a loyalty check. Said Lewis...
Horns of Orthodoxy. Like many men whose creeds and professions strike others as romantic and even fantastic, Robert Graves is in most ways a down-to-earth type of man. Son of an Irish songwriter he was born at Wimbledon (a London suburb) in 1895, describes himself as "a true-born Englishman." His education was orthodox British (at Charterhouse and Oxford); so, for his generation, was his service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in World War I, when he was so badly wounded that he was listed as "killed in action...