Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland detectives noted that the intruder, if any, had left no fingerprints. Chip was not awakened and Koko, the Irish setter, was not heard to bark.* A police time-motion study calculated that Sheppard could have run upstairs in six seconds, and it would have required 40 seconds to strike the 27 blows that had been inflicted on Marilyn's skull. Moreover. Cleveland detectives figured that Marilyn died between 3:10 and 4 a.m. Sheppard phoned to Houk some two hours later. In the meantime, tests disclosed, a trail of blood leading from the bedroom to a basement sink...
...their norms; and the last eight of its 22 sections are devoted to punishments. Workers, says this code, should be made to apologise for their mistakes publicly; if their products are defective, up to one-third of their wages will be deducted. There is, of course, no right to strike in China...
West Germany, where it is practically a tradition that "Germans don't strike," last week faced a nationwide labor revolt...
...Hamburg (pop. 1,600,000), a strike of 13,000 transport and utilities workers left West Germany's largest city without gas, water, buses and streetcars for nine days. In Bavaria, 130,000 metal workers downed tools. Nine hundred thousand Ruhr metal workers demanded a 10-pfennig (2.5?) hourly increase...
...STRIKE RULES were clamped on tighter by the National Labor Relations Board, which reversed its position that a union is free to strike during a contract any time after a 60-day cooling-off. NLRB decided that from now on a union may strike legally only when a contract ends or is subject to alteration. New interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act means workers who go out on strike at other times during the life of a contract thereby lose all of their job rights...