Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spring Creek, Pa., a town his great-grandfather had helped found, he was reared as an Andrew Jacksonian Democrat. He began practicing law in Jamestown, N.Y., after taking a two-year Albany Law School course in one year. His first clients were union men arrested in a violent transit strike. He got them acquitted. Before long he was vice president and general counsel of the Jamestown transit company. By the time he went to Washington, at 42, Jackson's abilities were widely recognized. His cases had included a $1,700,000 judgment, a hearing by lantern before a backwoods...
Some relief can be expected today, but weather experts are not sure when a return to more seasonal climate will take place. New England meteorologists are satisfied that there have been no torrential rain storms, which this low pressure area has caused to strike in New Mexico...
...scintillator began to "go crazy." Bartlett and his friends began to "go scrambled out, soon found the reason: a big granite outcropping studded with pockets of radioactive ore (autunite). When they tunneled into the mountainside, the Sunday prospectors found enough ore to give California its first solid uranium strike-and its first uranium rush...
...strike of the Red-led, independent United Electrical Workers ended last week at Detroit's Square D electrical-equipment company. After the company had reopened its plant and employees started drifting back to work (TIME. Sept. 20), union leaders and management hammered out a settlement that meant victory for the company but saved face for the unionists. Among the terms: a 4? hourly wage hike (v. the 5? demanded and the 3? offered), an extra holiday, arbitration of 27 cases involving employees who were fired during the strike for alleged violence and intimidation...
...issue revolved around a company demand for a no-strike clause. The face-saving solution: if the union asks for a wage hike next year and does not get it, it may strike, but the company can terminate its contract if the union exercises that right. In case of a wildcat strike, the company will ask the union if it supports the action. If it does, the union can be sued; if it does not, the employees can be fired...