Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racial conflict. Coretta King, Hosea Williams, Joseph Lowery, Andrew Young -- some of them had demonstrated with Martin Luther King in Montgomery, and some in Selma, and some in Washington, and now they had gathered with more than 20,000 supporters to march through Cumming, in Forsyth County, Ga., to protest the immutable racism there and the resurgence of racism elsewhere. And though King had been shot down 19 years ago, this was the week for observing his birthday as a national holiday, and so, in a sense, King was there...
Irritated Chinese officials promptly responded that the letter writers did not represent the "overwhelming majority of the Chinese abroad," who "welcome" Hu's resignation. Whatever the truth of that claim, the protest by the U.S.-based students clearly stung. Said China Scholar Anne Thurston: "It is always significant when anyone who is Chinese and who plans to go back to China puts his name on a document of protest." Declared a student from Shanghai at Columbia University: "Chinese students overseas are becoming an independent political influence in China's politics...
Park's reputed killers were arrested, and President Chun Doo Hwan dismissed the director general of the national police force and the Minister of Home Affairs. Nonetheless, university students protesting Park's death held a memorial service and campus protest marches, and the opposition seized the new popular issue. Trying to burnish his country's image before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Chun called for the creation of an agency to prevent such "isolated" incidents in the future...
...woman took him home a number of times, introducing him to her "Uncle Sasha," who was actually a KGB agent. The translator had been among 260 Soviets employed by the U.S. embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Leningrad until the Kremlin pulled them out last October to protest Washington's expulsion of 80 Soviet diplomats...
...Tuesday more than a hundred staff members gathered in a lobby of The New Yorker's offices to protest the move. After several splenetic speeches against Newhouse, they decided to draft a letter to Gottlieb asking him to step aside in favor of an in-house candidate. The three-paragraph message was signed by 154 people, including Roger Angell, Ann Beattie, Calvin Trillin and even the hermitic J.D. Salinger, who has not published a short story in The New Yorker since 1965. "It is our strange and powerfully held conviction," read the letter, "that only an editor who has been...