Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, Laura, was a protest song back in the thirties. They really cared which side you were on, then. Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers Talked Union all up and down this great land of ours. Detroit to Frisco, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem. Left wing, they called them. Unpatriotic--Moscow agents...
...lanky Southerner in casual garb attracted a small crowd. "Just passing through town. Heard about this Protest Hootenanny." A few minutes later he grabbed the spotlight...
...girls strode in. One brandished a guitar as if the Protest were against the paucity of girls...
...jacket lads moved in. "We're singing songs of Protest," he instructed. 'We've been Protesting about everything. Franco, the Bolsheviks, being rich, being poor. You name...
...first these exchanges were sparked by mere ball and strike calls. But in the third inning, when the Crimson scored all its runs, Meeham stopped play and charged about the diamond disputing one call for a full five minutes, finally declaring that he was continuing the game under protest...