Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clark. "True, we had stopped his immediate aggression to take over South Korea, but we left him there better trained...We left him there arrogant. He had made the people behind the Iron Curtain think that he had won a victory, and we left him ready and poised to strike again, as he did in Indo-China...
...years as a university, Duke has suffered more than its share of taunts. Created almost overnight by the great Duke (Bull Durham, Lucky Strike) tobacco fortune, it arrived, like Cinderella, dressed for the ball. But what lay beneath the fancy facade? Today, Duke is in a better position to answer that question than ever before. If not yet out in front, it is giving its older sisters in the South an increasingly lively race...
...spite of these distinguished scholars, the U.S. academic world still tends to look askance at its glittering Cinderella. For some reason, the canard persists that should midnight ever strike, the whole place would turn out to be a pumpkin after all. Yet, by any standard, Duke has gone far in its brief 30 years, and perhaps its greatest asset is the fact that it is so fully conscious of how far it has still to go. Slowly but surely, says President Edens, "we are developing an attitude of excellence." Given that ambition, Duke has but one major...
Chicago pedestrians who believe in God could indulge, last week, in an intriguing fantasy-the Phantom Philanthropist might strike at any moment...
...show their strength, the auto workers have already raised $12 million toward a strike fund of $25 million. On their part, the auto companies are turning out cars at the rate of 161,500 a week, just below the 1950 peak, in order to have as many as possible ready for spring and summer-just in case...