Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of President Grayson Kirk's repeated references in public statements to a "small minority of 17,500 students in the university," the strike has a wide base in the undergraduate college...
What happens next at Columbia depends no longer on the issues that started the strike, but on the tactics of Columbia's administration and the student Strike Coordinating Committee...
There are only 2700 men in Columbia College. Of the over 1000 people who have been arrested, about half of them are from the college. The strike had the active or passive participation of almost everyone in the college, although this was influenced by the cancelling of most class meetings. Many undergraduates who feared arrest supported the sit-ins in petition, and demonstrations...
Finally touched on the left shoulder, the subject forgot the entire fabrication until he was shown the film five months later. He was flabbergasted. Left of center politically, he thought himself fundamentally skeptical of Communist-conspiracy theories. Even the details did not strike any familiar chord. He does not drink any beer; he had never been to a Greenwich Village loft and knew no Harris or anyone like the man he had so vividly described...
Died. William P. Kennedy, 76, head of the 200,000-man Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen from 1949 to 1962, remembered for a paralyzing strike during the Korean War; in Minneapolis. "We've won a tremendous victory," crowed Kennedy, whose call for a national strike in 1950 prompted the Government to take over the roads. Finally, in May 1951, the railroads threw in the towel, signed a contract giving Kennedy's men a $97 million-a-year wage increase...