Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Welches were poor, and as a boy Joe worked hard. His great pleasure, even then, was to slip down to the courthouse and watch the trials. "I was impressed by the fact that a lawyer could say something and then say, 'Strike it out,' " Welch recalls. "That seemed to me to be a particularly godlike quality." After two years of clerking in a real estate office, he entered Grinnell College-with $600 that he had saved. Summers, he stored up money for more education by selling state maps from door to door for $1.95 (Joe got the dollar...
...election as president of the Economic Council, which made him fourth-ranking official in the French government; in Paris. Born and raised in Paris' industrial slums, Jouhaux went to work in a match factory, at 30 was boss of the powerful Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). During the strike-torn '303, he pulled the C.G.T. into the Socialist Front Populaire, alongside the Communists fought Hitler, Franco, Pierre Laval. Imprisoned by the Nazis in World War II, he came home to find the C.G.T. run by Communists, in 1947 broke away to lead an independent, anti-Communist labor movement (Force...
...ooze. An explosion such as the H-bomb would blow them skyward, heating them past 1,710° centigrade, at which temperature silica melts. But they would harden again at the lower temperatures of the atmosphere and, being feather light, would float on the wind across the Pacific -to strike windshields...
...extended. Unconsciously, Buckley and Bozell reveal this threat, when they admit that extreme liberals may fall outside the pale of respectability. The most disquieting quote from their book catches the dangers of McCarthyism in dramatic form: "Someday the patience of America may at last be exhausted and we will strike out against the Liberals. Not because they are treacherous like Communists, but because, with James Burnham, we will conclude 'they are mistaken in their predictions wrong in their advice, and through the results of their actions injurious to the interests of the nation...
...that reason, it is surprising that The Pajama Game has a substantial plot. John Raitt plays the superintendent of a Sleeptite factory who is in love with a labor agitator, played, whenever possible in black lingerie, by Miss Paige. Their romance is hindered, though not drastically, by a strike of the workers for a 7 1/2 cents wage increase. All ends happily, however, in a burst of song and gaudy pajamas...