Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry of the two camps thus vacillates between the precision of text book exercises and the protest on lavatory walls. In taking great pains to be original, both brands of poetry have degenerated into glittering, fatuous babble...
President Eisenhower led the U.S. protest against the Kremlin's execution of Hungarian Revolutionaries Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and two comrades (see FOREIGN NEWS) with his strongest anti-Communist statement since Budapest. "I cannot think of any incident that could have, and has, more shocked the civilized world," said he at his press conference. "It is clear evidence that the intent of the Soviets is to pursue their own policies of terror and intimidation to bring about complete subservience to their will. I think there is no incident that should have more alerted the free world to the lack...
Behind the Screams. The public outcries of protest against the plan from both Greece and Turkey did not match the private qualifications of those officials who realize that intransigence on both sides has got out of hand. While Greeks protested that there was no promise of future "self-determination," the Greek government was ready to go along with any compromise acceptable to Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, leader of the enosis movement (the British were expected to allow the exiled Makarios to return to Cyprus). Although the Turks started riots on the grounds that the plan failed to provide for "partition...
...weeks of politicking, rumblings of military coups, intrigue and insult. In the struggle for votes, one Deputy jailed on a murder charge was let out to cast his ballot; another, who had been hospitalized by an auto accident, was badgered daily by special pleaders; another resigned his seat in protest against continual harassment...
...identified by party. While Republicans waxed fat on well-tried personalities, the Democrats skillfully rebuilt a party machine to take advantage of the challenge. 2) The Democratic tide is running in California as it is elsewhere around the U.S. 3) Recession and general uneasiness over world affairs stirred a protest vote of sorts. 4) Republicans were split and confused by sub-rosa battling between Knowland and Knight factions...