Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week, as the Aruba passed under the tip of India, the Finnish crew grumbled a strike threat if the ship continued to sail on into "dangerous waters." They demanded that she put in at Ceylon. Gunnar Damstroem, manager of the Re-Be Shipping Co.. which owns the vessel, replied with a Columbus-like "Sail on!" At least, he instructed the Aruba's captain by radio to keep the ship on the open ocean and out of harm's way as long as the crew would permit. Leaving Ceylon behind without putting in to port...
Picket Courtship. Eugenia operated an embroidery machine in a Bronx dress factory, and George's only real union activity at the time was to walk with her on picket lines when her union, I.L.G.W.U. Local 6, was on strike. (As a working plumber, Meany never went on strike.) In 1919 George and Eugenia were married. Shortly thereafter, perhaps because of Eugenia's influence, he began to take an active part in Plumbers Local 463. In 1920, with the help of some other young dissidents, he was elected to the local board, and in 1922, at 28, he became...
...forces will not be parceled out among Communist-menaced nations; rather, they will be poised to strike back at attacking Communist China forces on three fronts-from Korea, Formosa, and an unspecified point in Southeast Asia...
...Pierre Pflimlin, a political comer, as Minister of Finance. Faure pledged his government to carry through Mendès' proposed home rule for Tunisia, but appointed as Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs a dissident Gaullist who strongly opposes it. All of these appointments indicated an attempt to strike an "exact middle," which might in practice turn out to be a dead center...
...Strike. In Cambridge, Mass., Navyman Richard C. Burke, 21, got a quick annulment after testifying in probate court that Wife Mariquita Campastrano, 25, had concealed nine previous marriages when she married...