Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mouth. Back of the hostility of Varner and other white witnesses was the man calling their shots. Prompting from a front-row seat was Alabama's attorney general and Governor-elect, John Patterson, 37. Patterson, at hearing's start, had tried to protest federal meddling in state business, had been gaveled into silence by Vice Chairman Robert G. Storey, dean of Southern Methodist University's law school, and principal interrogator for the commission. Thereafter Patterson counseled witnesses into obstinacy...
Despite the denunciation, the University will probably continue the policy it has followed with its National Science Foundation grants, raising no formal protest, the CRIMSON unofficially learned yesterday...
...like the idea of forcing people to take oaths for special reasons," Seymour E. Harris '20, president of the local chapter of the AAUP, explained yesterday. "Why is it necessary for a student to sign an affidavit just because he is borrowing money?" he asked. The Association's protest also claimed that loyalty oaths will not uncover any person who belongs to a subversive organization, since these individuals "have no scruples about signing such affidavits...
...smashing windows. Opangault himself whacked the Speaker over the head with a microphone. Police cleared out the invaders with tear gas, and the Assembly dutifully settled down to vote for autonomy. Then the abbé introduced a resolution postponing elections until 1962. Opangault's socialists stomped out in protest, and after they were gone the abbé was elected Premier...
...Larry defensemen protested vigorously that the referee had blown the whistle before the goal, prompting them to let Anderson skate in. When their protest was disallowed, they continued the argument and were put off the ice with misconduct penalties. The varsity had only 37 seconds to press its advantage...