Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when U.S. higher education seemed to be the victim of an artfully orchestrated conspiracy of disruption. At campus after campus, militant black students slammed down lists of nonnegotiable demands on presidential desks, threatening to shut down colleges that would not comply and organizing protests, picket lines and strikes. San Francisco State was near paralysis after 73 days of a strike called by the college's Black Students Union. The militants were also out in force at Brandeis, the University of Minnesota and San Fernando Valley State College, at Wittenberg University in Ohio, Queens College in New York...
...false, for the moral and the immoral." Editor in Chief Manzini defends his approach to the birth-control controversy with a particularly beguiling argument. Criticism of Humanae Vitae has been played up so much elsfewhere, he maintains, that L'Osservatore must be one-sided in order to strike a balance...
American steel companies, beset by rapidly rising costs for labor, have steadily lost ground to lower-priced foreign steel. The trend was accelerated last year, when the threat of a strike prompted consumers to hedge by ordering foreign steel. The splurge was all the more alarming to domestic producers because the Europeans and Japanese made especially strong gains in the flat-rolled products that are used in such key industries as autos and appliances...
...same time, white students ended their marathon "non-obstructive" sit-in in the Bernstein Marcus Administration Building opposite Ford Hall. This group had organized an abortive student strike last week...
Each individual, he wrote in the annual report, must strike a balance "between his commitment to the private goals and satisfactions and his desires and responsibilities as a public citizen...