Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cavalry regiment, commanded by ex-Cavalry Sergeant Semyon Timoshenko, which became part of a Red cavalry army led by Semyon Budenny, an ex-Cossack. The war unfolded on a 3,000-mile perimeter around central Russia. The Red cavalrymen fought as irregular shock troops, now galloping 400 miles to strike Poland's Pilsudski, now driving south at the White forces under General Denikin, finally pinning White General Piotr Wrangel in the Prekop isthmus and bringing the war to a close. Georgy Zhukov, the barrel-chested, hard-riding kid from Kaluga Province, swung his saber with the toughest of them...
Packing Parliament. Once the new court assembles (probably Oct. 1), Strydom expects it to endorse his apartheid (segregation) policies. Another likely possibility is that he will ask judicial sanction to strike out the present guarantee of equality to the English and Afrikaans languages in the schools and in the government. Should the court balk, Strydom is prepared to pack it a second time. And if he still has difficulties, his Nationalists are confident that they can pack Parliament as well, by appointing new members to the Senate. Eventually Strydom intends to make his country a Boer republic, seceding from...
...Today show as having dug his own trench out in Yucca Flat. Meanwhile, the desperate networks kept rerunning film of the target area until the tall, thin pole with the bulge at the top that was the housing for the bomb was as naggingly familiar as a Lucky Strike commercial...
Referring to the U.A.W.'s threat to strike, if necessary, to get some form of guaranteed annual wage in current negotiations, Ford said: "Today, both management and workers know that a major strike could dump the applecart of our present and prospective high prosperity-and nobody wants that. Ford Motor Co.'s management has every determination to arrive at a fair agreement in the best interests of our employees, our company, the automobile industry and the public at large. We believe our employees are realistic and sensible people, and just as eager as we are for the continuation...
...union (1,300,000 members), onetime chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress and one of the Labor Party's chief anti-Bevanites; after collapsing while addressing a May Day rally; in Leicester, England. Anti-Communist Deakin played a leading part last week in averting a threatened strike of 65,000 British railworkers...