Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest, the Brazilian Medical Association called a general doctors' strike for Dec. 6-three days before Congress is scheduled to consider the veto. The doctors said that only skeleton medical crews would remain on duty to handle emergencies. But the President held firm, relying on Congress to uphold his anti-inflation program. For the delegates to the Hemisphere economic conference in Rio this week, the doctors' dilemma was a capsule review of Brazil's financial illness and Café Filho's strong medicine...
Last week, as the strike wore on, Principal Crowe and his teachers-all Protestants-reported for duty as usual. But no one in Kentucky could tell them when, if ever, their pupils would finally show...
...those eleven weeks, Bradfordsville's marathon school strike has turned into a full-fledged civic crusade and a major religious ruckus. It began when the Marion County school board decided to shut down the Bradfordsville high school and to transfer its students to Lebanon, ten miles away. The board tried to explain that it had only one motive for its action: it merely wanted to provide better facilities through consolidation. But to the citizens of Bradfordsville. the whole scheme seemed some sort of plot...
...Alvin Dark, co-starred with Giant Manager Leo Durocher in a parody of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. But the mutiny (Benny takes over the management of the Giants during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another good Person to Person program, with Lillian Gish arguing charmingly but ineptly for a Secretary of Fine Arts to be added to the President's Cabinet...
C.I.O. AUTO WORKERS Union is planning to build up a $25 million strike kitty in readiness for negotiating with the auto industry next spring over a guaranteed annual wage. The U.A.W., whose strike fund is now $9,000,000, hopes to boost it by raising dues from $2.50 per month to $7.50 per month for three months...