Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mediterranean). Behind it lies the long-range strategic air power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command and Britain's Bomber Command. The bomber force, with its necklace of offensive air bases from Iceland to Iraq, is not directly committed to NATO, but it is ready and certain to strike should NATO be attacked...
Complete Scale. How could a youngster of 23, with only four Broadway parts behind him, strike so deep and come up with so much? His teacher, Stella Adler, has an answer: "Marlon never really had to learn to act. He knew. Right from the start he was a universal actor. Nothing human was foreign to him. He had the potential for any role. It's incredible how large the scale of his emotions is-he has complete scale. And he has all the external equipment-looks and voice and power of presence&$151;to go with it." Right from...
...Sinclair Weeks's proposal to put labor unions under the antitrust laws. Labor Secretary James Mitchell, who is opposed, has come out on top, so far, in a running battle over other issues, e.g., knocking down a Commerce proposal to divert copper from the strategic stockpile to the strike-bound copper industry (on the ground that it was strike-breaking...
...West Virginia, 21 white students went on strike at the Sherman High School in Seth because three Negroes had been admitted, and 300 parents held a protest meeting in Madison over 18 Negro pupils. Meanwhile, Kanawha County, seat of the capital, rescinded its earlier decision, ordered 2,905 Negroes back to segregated schools. But elsewhere in the state, there was progress of another sort. Last week 164 white students were peacefully enrolled at the once all-Negro West Virginia State College...
...sketchy, querulous Korean narrative adds little to the public record. At Inchon, notes Author Willoughby, MacArthur took the North Koreans in the rear "in the classical Napoleonic pattern"-just like the dazzled Austrians at Treviso. But the Supreme Commander pushed on, never believing that the Chinese Communists would strike south across the Yalu River. By the time MacArthur could pull his retreating forces together again, Truman fired him for insisting that the Korean war could (and should) be fought on to victory. History may decide that MacArthur was right. Authors Willoughby and Chamberlain have produced no new documents or arguments...