Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Atkin's dissent spoke for itself so loudly that Parliament planned to reconsider the Home Secretary's wartime powers...
...present half-way measures where we let others do our fighting for us, still he respects the right of the isolationists to express their views. "The very fact that a vigorous debate continues is a proof that individual liberty is still secure. Only when no voice of dissent is heard must we fear that a group of free men has been transformed into a regiment of slaves...
Judge Rosenman then took his plans back to the defense bosses. So thorough had been his thinking, so deeply prepared were his answers to any objections, there was not a single dissent...
Although he distinguished himself in the Boxer Rebellion, the Philippine Insurrection, and World War I, Joseph Taussig never reached top rank (his biggest job: Chief of Staff of the U.S. Fleet). But, for a Navy man who had his rare, hazardous quality of dissent, he did very well. The Navy for years discouraged and repressed the late, great Alfred Thayer Mahan while he was evolving the doctrines which still guide the navies of the world. Vice Admiral Taussig, in his idle years, may well remember that Mahan on active duty never rose above a captaincy, got to be a Rear...
...power; they may still be nodding when the argument is persuasively made for at least the short-run military impenetrability of the Western Hemisphere. But as the authors draw steadily away from the safe ground of indisputable fact and into the whirlpool of opinion, this head, at least, registers dissent. Wide though the military and strategic knowledge of Messrs. MacLiesh and Cushman may be, they are entirely out of the narrow limitations which they can has to in the earlier part of the book when they reject the idea of getting into the war as destructive of Hemispherical Defense--which...