Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also fitting] that the site for our home [adjoins] one of the great universities of the world ... a constant reminder to us [to] insist upon man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof, the right to explore at will, to disagree with, and even to dissent from, the opinions of the majority. As evidence of such a purpose, we have carved on one of [the walls of the Bar Center] this quotation from a great lover of freedom: 'Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above...
Adams. The only dissent would come from Illinois' Everett Dirksen, who would drop tut-tutting footnotes in defense of his friend McCarthy...
Murmurs of Dissent. Next day, after the good news had spread, wave after wave of shouting crowds spilled into Cairo's streets carrying banners hailing Egypt's revolution and its leader, Colonel Nasser. Not everybody was happy: survivors of the corrupt, once-powerful Wafd party put out pamphlets denouncing the terms of the Suez "compromise." But in Cairo's exultation, the dissension was hardly heard; most Egyptians seemed convinced that Nasser had done well by the nation...
...months ago, Punch's Editor Malcolm Muggeridge had lifted a rare voice of dissent from Britain's course, comparing Eden to Chamberlain: "The fault of Chamberlain was not in sacrificing Czechoslovakia, but in believing that Nazi aggression and Hitler's long record of perfidy would thenceforth come to an end. It was Chamberlain's sincerity, not his villainy, which led him astray. His crime was to make a fool of himself, and therefore...
...lone dissent, filed by Commissioner Henry DeWolf Smyth, held that Dr. Oppenheimer "is completely loyal and is not a security risk...