Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
...duty to open more state schools . . ." Last week, when the government invoked and won a vote of confidence on its subsidy proposals, Catholics all over Belgium rallied into protest action. First there was a minor tumult of Catholic students in Brussels' streets, then a one-day "strike" of 900,000 Catholic pupils throughout the country. Theo Lefevre, president of the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, next called for a "peaceful and dignified" mass demonstration in the capital at week's end. Alarmed, Socialist Premier Achille van Acker formally banned the demonstration, ordered the railroads to cancel 100 special trains...
London, which normally has the biggest daily and Sunday papers in the world (combined circ. nearly 50 million), this week had none. The city's nine morning, three afternoon and ten Sunday papers were closed by a strike of their maintenance men and electricians. The 700 strikers, who earn $34.30 a week for night work and $29.30 for day work, rejected a $2 wage increase from the publishers, made it impossible for the papers to operate...
...lovesick young artist was on a hunger strike in Tel Aviv last week, and all Israel debated the consequences. The artist: Moshe Barak, 27, an Israeli of Rumanian parentage who was wounded four times in the Arab-Israeli war. His objective: to force the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, to repeal its rabbinical ban on civil marriages...
...copies of the report for release at 9 p.m., the Times, with as many as 84 Linotype machines at j work, had an 18-hour head start in setting the text. But the Chicago Trib, which learned how to print fast from photoengravings during a long (1947-49) typographical strike, remembered an easy way to catch up. A Trib staffer flew two copies of the documents to Chicago, where the paper quickly made photoengravings of the full conference record. Thus it was able to print a supplement with a reproduction of the record.* The Trib, however, was so rushed that...