Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were one or two mutters of dissent. Several hundred college students in Karachi broke classes and demonstrated. Some provincial-minded officials wanted assurances that the government jobs in their provinces would continue to go .to the locals. But the regime has already installed its men as governors of the four West Pakistan provinces, and they will cooperate in the provincial dissolution. The princely rulers-including the Khan of Kalat, the Wali of Swat and the Jam Saheb of Las Bella-noting the direction of the wind, obediently consented that their states should be wiped...
...expressed. To yield to the "climate of fear," to become a scared liberal, is to strengthen the very forces which one opposes. Courage must complement conviction, for otherwise each man will become a rubber stamp content to spent the rest of his life echoing popular beliefs, never daring to dissent, never having courage enough to say what he thinks, and never living as an individual, but only as part of the crowd . . . J. C. Peter Richardson...
...Portraits of Malenkov, Mao and Ho stared out from the stalls of the peddlers. At main intersections there were bamboo arches of triumph, decked with papier-mâché peace doves and slogans that proclaimed "INDEPENDENCE" or "PEACE" or "PRESIDENT HO FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS." No exception, no dissent was permitted in Hanoi's show of joy; nobody forgot to display his enthusiasm, or was too lazy to bother...
Although the combination of the two committees was the newest part of the general motion, made for the first time two weeks ago, it passed with hardly a murmur of dissent. Dispute centered over the House representation clause...
Joseph C. Palamountain, associate professor of Government, felt that the compromise move came from dissent in the Republican party, and should not be taken seriously as it will go on for years...