Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitiful little caravan (which had been stalled for a night in Kenosha with an ailing engine coil) consisting of two cars and a truck. From New York came a trainload of Mc-Carthyites headed by Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, director of the American Jewish League Against Communism, whose slogan is: "Strike terror into the hearts of Flanders and Malenkov." One man wore a white suit and brandished a butterfly net, aping Joe's suggestion that Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, who started the censure movement, should be caught with...
...Douglas McKay, whose "partnership" power policy has been received with mounting hostility in McKay's native state. To balding Dick Neuberger, this issue, especially the fight over the nearby Idaho Hell's Canyon project, coupled with the discontent among 100,000 lumbermen after a ten-week lumber strike, made 1954 the year, if any, for a Democrat in Oregon...
...blue-jeaned charges learned their math and history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around the stable with a girl, the Hollywood romance gets taken...
...passenger conveyor belt is the latest example of the canny diversification that has kept Goodyear at the top of the industry. Last week Goodyear brought out its nine-month earnings report, and though sales were down 14% (largely due to a seven-week strike) from 1953's record $1.2 billion, profits of $32 million were good enough for the company to declare an extra dividend of $1 and a 2-for-1 stock split...
...concluded, "strike fear into the hearts of Flanders and Malenkov! Remember, Roy Cohn is not finished, he is only beginning." Ready for Roy himself, the crowd rose to its feet, only to find that the secretary-treasurer had a few words for the good...