Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four Stanford students go on a hunger strike to encourage the university to take a position in the debate...
Cesar Chavez organizes a major strike against California grape producers to combat poor working conditions and low wages for the field workers. When the walkout appears headed for failure, he calls for a boycott of all California table grapes. Colleges throughout the country join in the boycott...
...very little evidence exists that capital punishment actually deters murder. While deterrence is always difficult to demonstrate, little research has indicated any diminution in crime due to the institution of the death penalty. While the gas chamber may strike fear in the hearts of many, hardened criminals will carry out murders regardless of the draconian nature of the punishment...
...Matt Damon has cornered the always busy market in youthful, affronted innocence. And you have to admit he's pretty good at it. In The Rainmaker, playing Rudy Baylor, a young, undertrained lawyer trying his first case, he shows a nice sneaky knuckler, tracing an erratic path toward the strike zone. In Good Will Hunting, he pitches a sharp curve ball as a brilliant autodidact, confused by his own genius, alternately angry and vulnerable. Yet whether Damon has a high hard one, a true star's blowback fastball, is not a question these movies permit him to answer...
...have sounded quite like the Princess of Wales, but when Queen Elizabeth toasted her husband on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary last week, she did strike a surprising note of intimacy. Talking at one point about the need to be sensitive to the public's will, she said, "I have done my best, with Prince Philip's constant love and help, to interpret it correctly..." There it was--the word love. Yes, she had tucked it away in a parenthetical phrase, but no one could remember the Queen's ever using it in a personal context. Will...