Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course," he said, in measured Beacon Street tones, "the whole Russian business is a horrible, shocking thing. I understand that the ASPCA has asked the State Department to lodge an official protest, and the Canine Defense League of London intends to march on the Soviet embassy. But actually, petitioning Russians is a waste of time...
...selected several leaflets and brandished them as he spoke. "What we can do is protest the frightful, cruel, and revolting practices of our own government. Did you know that the Army used live goats as targets for high-powered rifles? That we subject dumb animals to fall-out and shoot monkeys up in rockets...
...least prepossessing satellite, the military press back in Moscow, on an unseen cue, began to publish editorials pointedly attributing Russia's World War II victory not to its generals but to the "indispensable leadership" of the Communist Party. Political commissars throughout the Soviet armed forces held protest meetings to complain that their authority had been so undermined by line officers that the political education of Soviet troops was being neglected. On the day before Zhukov finally returned, Khrushchev held a meeting with the top brass of the Moscow military district-a meeting at which he apparently disclosed his intention...
...designed to drain 15,000 acres of malarial swamp that lie partly in the neutral zone along the Syrian border. In its six years of construction, Syria had repeatedly complained to the Security Council about the project. Last week the Syrians, chastened and preoccupied, raised not a murmur of protest...
Last week, after being suspended for this wordless protest, Raya was allowed to publish again on condition that it make no attempt to tell readers why it had been banned. By contrast with Keng Po, Indonesia's biggest paper (56,000), which in five months has not run a single editorial, Raya vowed an editorial last week: "We'll continue to fight for truth in so far as it is possible...