Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the tobacco industry was not hurt badly by all the cancer talk. American Tobacco (Lucky Strike) netted $1.56 in the second quarter, the same as a year ago. Liggett & Myers, with earnings of $1.20 a share, was down...
...next day, Swisher called Mitchell: K-25's employees were back at work. Twelve hours later, workers at a secondary plant in Paducah, Ky. were back on the job, and the first actual production strike in AEC history was over...
...Last week's wildcat strike by 6,000 A.F.L. building workers slowed new construction at Oak Ridge but did not affect production...
...catch a sinking line drive, he reached back, caught his cap in one hand and the ball in the other. Against the Dodgers one day, he raced into right center after a long fly, snagged it with a prodigious stretch, spun completely around, off balance, and rifled a perfect strike to the plate to throw out the Dodgers' speedy Billy Cox. Around big-league locker rooms, that play is still referred to as "The Throw...
...gave Willie the instincts of a ballplayer," explains Leo Durocher. "All I had to do was add a little practical advice about wearing his pants higher to give the pitchers a smaller strike zone. Otherwise, I let Willie's instincts alone. Hit the kid a fly with a couple of men on and he'll peg to the right base without thinking. Maybe I'll tell him where to play for this or that batter, or when to wait out a pitcher. That's all. Hell, I learn about baseball just by watching...