Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retired though he is, Old Trouper Maurice Chevalier still loves to strike a pose now and again, in this case sitting like some jovial potentate flanked by a pair of pet cheetahs at the Count de La Panouse's chateau outside Paris...
...JAMES E. CHEEK, 36, SHAW UNIVERSITY, Raleigh, N.C. (1,078 students). A militant from way back, Cheek was expelled from one high school for "agitation." As an undergraduate at Shaw, he was nearly fired for leading a student strike against "an indifferent, broken-down faculty" and "Victorian social standards." Thus Cheek is an appropriate president for the campus where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee got its start in 1960. Says Cheek: "I'm not telling my students to be sweet little nigger boys and girls so they can get a good...
Exactly one year after it began, the eleven-union strike against the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner is technically a stalemate. Publisher George R. Hearst Jr., 41, grandson of the crusading William Randolph, still directs a staff of strike breakers inside his boarded-up building. Behind other barricades just a block away, some 50 strikers still gather each day to dispense food and subsistence checks, plot strategy and pounce hopefully on every rumor of Hearst's troubles. Actually, the strike is over-and the clear winner is George Hearst...
...Frantisek Nedomlel: "We are hurrying its organization along as quickly as possible so that we will have it fully in operation before we get any direct orders to abandon it." In a letter published by the trade-union newspaper Prace, moreover, a group of factory workers threatened a general strike if Russia attempted to sack Reformer Smrkovsky...
Miss Wiliamson's remarks were corroborated by a white student who, expressing her own indignation, commented, "The hunger strike threat [of the previous spring] got people...