Word: struck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle, 78, paused before the casket in the Rotunda to offer a somber salute. After an estimated 60,000 people had filed through the Rotunda, the casket was returned to the cathedral for the funeral. Outside, the Marine Band struck up Hail to the Chief%#151;notes that were heard repeatedly during the five days-and eight pallbearers carried the casket down the aisle to the catafalque, draped in purple velvet. The Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, the Presbyterian minister who baptized Eisenhower in 1953 (Ike's parents were members of a Mennonite sect...
...emotion and impulse. Yet not only the claims of civility but also the realities of individual development call for some measure of selfdiscipline. We have explored about as fully as a civilization can the joys of impulse, of a world without forms, order or limits. A balance must be struck...
...Strings, Richard Rodgers' otherwise forgettable Broadway musical of seven seasons ago, Diahann Carroll was cast as a Negro girl from Harlem who struck it rich as a high-fashion model in Paris. For plausibility's sake, it had to be Paris. Nobody would have believed the story if it had been set in Manhattan, least of all Diahann herself...
...retina, thus causing a loss of depth perception, a hitter's most valuable asset. Tony still insisted on going to spring training last year, but his performance only confirmed the medical diagnosis. In batting practice he missed pitches by a full foot. In exhibition games he struck out constantly. Finally, after fanning three times against the Washington Senators, he stormed into the clubhouse and, as one observer recalled, "nearly tore the place apart...
...nation's 63,000 airline mechanics are a cantankerous lot, with far greater power over the U.S. economy than their numbers would suggest. Three years ago, they struck five carriers for higher wages, and Lyndon Johnson entered the dispute. The President helped end the six-week-long transport tie-up by telling the nervous airline negotiators that he wanted a settlement regardless of the inflationary effects. The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years, thus pulverizing L.B.J.'s cherished 3.2% guideline for wage and price hikes. Afterward, wage boosts...