Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much that they didn't criticize his aim. At Wisconsin's Republican convention, 2,500 delegates applauded long & loudly his keynote speech on Communists in Government. Then they whooped through a resolution to "heartily commend and encourage" McCarthy's efforts. Only one man got up to object. Lawyer Perry J. Stearns, a candidate for the Senate seat of Alexander Wiley, shouted: "We are Republicans but Americans first," and accused McCarthy of producing "evidence entirely void of probative value." Boos filled the hall...
...some signs of returning to Vargas' side. In the election of officers last month at Rio's Club Militar (a social center to which most army officers belong), the regular anti-Vargas slate was defeated. The winning faction made a point of saying that they would not object to the ex-President's return, if he were constitutionally chosen...
...shall we call it satire? It breaks out when least expected." He was either very dull or very sharp with the ladies, they were never sure which. When gay Hannah Quincy coyly told him she knew some Latin and offered "Puella amat puer," John quickly countered: "Puella what? . . . The object of the verb takes the accusative, in Latin. If you are trying to say the boy loves the girl .. . Or do you mean, possibly, the girl loves...
...unwilling neighbors, resented the fact that "people who could not even speak English" had all the rights of citizenship. Negroes found them competing for rooms and jobs, and there were fights because Negro girls went out with Puerto Rican boys. Puerto Ricans learned what it is to be the object of prejudice, often met discrimination. "The poorest they have in the store is good enough for the Puerto Ricans," is a common observation in the Barrio...
...celebrate the birthday, the South African Broadcasting Corp. had planned a feature broadcast. The government angrily protested, and the program was canceled. Johannesburg offered Smuts the freedom of the city; one of Malan's leaders, J. G. Strydom, called a special meeting to object that Smuts had done nothing for South Africa and had worked only for the British empire. Smuts, who has spent half a century working for peace, justice and world understanding, said nothing...