Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to keep warm. The heat was turned on and the lights were turned off. Again we went out and reported to officials that the men planned to make torches of oil-soaked waste rags. The lights were lighted again." After 44 days, the U.A.W. won the strike, organized General Motors and within a year had 400 contracts covering most carmakers, except, notably. Ford (where company police beat up Reuther and his associates during 1937's "Battle of the Overpass"). In 1941, with war production booming, Ford capitulated after a ten-day strike. Ever since then, the U.A.W...
...both Reuther and the mass movement that swept up the distressed workers of Detroit two decades ago. Ford workers average $106 weekly; economic desperation no longer harasses the men for reasons beyond their ken. Union conventions, once rough and fiery, now seem like Rotary meetings. In 1945 the G.M. strike began with the class-struggle refrain, Solidarity Forever. This month's strike threat brought forth, instead, over the U.A.W. radio program, a comic song directed at Henry Ford II: Dance With Me, Henry...
...this ancient pomp, there was one concession to scruffy present reality. Because of the rail strike, the Queen gave up her traditional golden coach, instead drove to Westminster in a closed car to avoid drawing sightseeing crowds to add to London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers...
Ceremony over, the new Commons quickly reverted to its workaday manners. The Queen's speech, said Attlee tartly, "was paved with good intentions"; and he launched an attack on Eden's handling of the rail strike, then in its second week. When Laborites jeered at an Eden sally, Eden snapped: "The trouble with members opposite is that they all want-to be leaders at once." The gibe struck home, reducing the Labor benches to momentary glum silence...
...stabbing. When photographers snapped his picture, it was of just one more arrogant, smirking young hoodlum who knows no law but that of the blackboard jungle. Said seriously injured Teacher O'Tarrell, when asked why he had not defended himself against Vargas: "We have orders not to strike them...