Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer be in the same industrial league as West Germany if the Saar's coal and steel changed hands, concedes that it cannot prevent the Saarlanders from rejoining their kinsmen at some future time, but it insists on a guaranteed share of Saar production, and German nationalists noisily object. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a good European, believes that Franco-German understanding is more important than anything that impedes it, and accordingly will not be trying to hurry the Saar into reunification at the risk of needlessly antagonizing France...
...little as possible so I wouldn't make a mistake." Six weeks later, the same student tried it again. Once more, he quickly became withdrawn and paranoid. His description: "Complete and insoluble confusion and anxiety reigned . . . One hallucination was that of lying flat on a slowly revolving, cloudlike object, and there were other similar objects all around, touching gently and revolving 'in gear.' I just slowly rolled down into the depths of the arrangement. Another was of a flowerbed type of pattern, or perhaps a purposeless pinball machine, with lights arranged in rows and columns. The lights...
...Wife No. 17, Emma Batchellor ("a more kindhearted, industrious, & affectionate wife I never had"), is the nearest thing to a riot in all the Diaries. Emma did not wait for Lee to propose, but flatly "said that I on first site was the object of her Choice." Emma poured kettlefuls of hot water on one of her husband's enemies and scratched his face until it was "a gore of Blood." When scandalized Bishop Pace commanded that Emma be "re-baptized" to atone for such conduct, "Emma asked the prevelege of choice in the man to Baptise...
University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...
Other political and debating groups were reticent about actively promoting Mrs. Gaynor's attempts to publicize the Communist-directed youth conventions. The political forum does not object to Mrs. Gaynor's speaking at the University, but is not "eager" about her visit, and certainly would not undertake to sponsor her, chairman William C. Brady, president of the New Conservative Club said...