Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these, says Author Wallace lovingly, were square pegs in round holes: "They said nay when others said aye." If we refuse to "dissent and disagree" as they did, "man will have lost his last battle and his last chance." This is a deeply moving suggestion, even though many will probably prefer to lose the battle and retain their sanity...
...months of World War II, a debacle which cost four or five million Russian lives and lost most of European Russia to the Nazis. By the time the Russians, by a superhuman effort, had reversed the balance, the whole country was literally sick of autocracy. There were murmurs of dissent, attempts to guide Stalin along other paths. But the mysterious demise of a number of high Politburo-crats halted any defiance from on high. The result was, says Robert C. Tucker, who spent 5½years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow as an attache, an "inward migration...
...Dissent, With Comment
Concurrence & Dissent. Justices Burton and Harlan concurred in ordering a new trial for Jencks, but only on the ground that Trial Judge Thomason had erred in his definition of Communist Party membership to the jury. But, wrote Burton, the old judge-as-screener rule "respects the interests of justice by permitting an accused to receive all information necessary to his defense." And the court majority "goes beyond the request of [Jencks] that reports be produced for examination by the trial court and, in effect, seems to hold that the Government waives any privileges it may have with respect to documents...
...General Assembly in Edinburgh elected Dr. George F. MacLeod its new moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come this week from the General Assembly, in the background there will be the rumble of dour dissent from clergy and churchgoers. Rumbled the Scottish Daily Express: "The spirit of Knox is not dead...