Word: protestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly discovered method of producing glycerine (currently produced as a byproduct of soap manufacture). Whether the process reported by Canada's National Research Council in Ottawa will be adopted commercially depends largely on the efficiency of the workers' digestive apparatus. In any case, no one will protest their exploitation. The workers are microscopic members of the clan Bacillus subtilis...
...criticism, Moscow did not explode and go its lone way, as it certainly would have done in the past. Instead, the Russians quietly released Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the London Poles', anti-Russian Premier, whose arrest in Poland had touched off a storm of British protest. If Yalta had done nothing else, it had put the Russians on their best public behavior...
...weeks, National Tory Leader John Bracken has charged that hundreds of home defense draftees threw their rifles into the ocean in protest against being sent overseas to fight. For weeks, Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton has denied the charge. Last week, after John Bracken had made his charge again, stern, scowling General McNaughton exploded with lyric wrath...
...guilt and frustration peculiar to the civilian soul in wartime, the nation was willing to admit that its patriotic conscience was not completely clear. But last week-while dutifully opening its mouth for the latest dose of official criticism-the vast patient could not stifle a groan of protest...
Then correspondents were called to Argentina's Foreign Ministry. They all thought: "This is it!" Ameghino's announcement of a mere protest to Germany over seven unimportant Argentine diplomats was a letdown. Cracked one reporter, remembering that the Red Army is 31 miles from Berlin: "Ameghino will get his reply from the Russians...