Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cook one moment, an adviser the next, finally went to the U.S. as contact and fund raiser. Dr. Isabel Rojas, 32, commanded the only organized women fighters-a headquarters guard company that participated in a few easy ambushes in the war's final days. Protected closely by strike forces of guerrillas, her girls suffered only a few flesh wounds...
Perhaps these comic scenes are really hilarious; they did not strike me that way, but everyone around me at the theatre was laughing fit to kill. At any rate, Mr. Benthall has certainly made them pleasant enough, with not much help from Shakespeare except for Sir Toby's great line to Malvolio: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes...
...promised, the Times tucked a plump, 34-page back-news supplement into an early issue-two pages for each day the paper had been down. The supplement was a blend of hoarded obituaries, old news and old weather reports. Prepared daily while the strike was in progress, stuffed into separate big envelopes (coded Alice, Betsy, Carol, Diana, Edna and so on down through Queenie) against the day publication was resumed, this running rehash avoided the obvious temptation to correct day-to-day judgments in the light of hindsight. On Dec. 27 the Times filed away a story-later proved false...
...Book of Job. Poet Archibald MacLeish's J.B. (TIME, Dec. 22) was booked onto Broadway with scant attention from theater-party givers and a skimpy advance sale of $46,000. On top of that it ran into the truly Jobian trial of New York's newspaper strike, which muffled the critics' unanimous raves. Yet when news about J.B. did spread, via TV, radio and word of mouth, its theme of modern man's agony must have touched responsive chords. By last week J.B. was one of the hottest tickets in town, and requests for seats...
Peace came to strike-bound Eastern Air Lines last week-at a high price. The line's 550 A.F.L-C.I.O. flight engineers, who went back to work after a 38-day strike, won a smashing victory. The company rescinded its earlier order that engineers must be pilot-trained to serve in jets, agreed instead to place a third pilot in its DC-8s, which will go into service next year. The line boosted the engineers' average annual pay by $1,200 to a top of $13,260, consented to an "agency shop" clause under which all engineers must...