Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard professor is chief counsel to American Rabbi Avraham Weiss, who has launched a libel suit against Glemp for calling Weiss' peaceful protest an attempted attack on the convent's nuns...
Nottinghamshire had beaten Harvard earlier by five lengths in the first running of the final, but a controversial protest by Parker was upheld because a one foot-long piece of wood had jammed on a fin on the underside of the Crimson shell...
...issue erupted in February when a gay student charged he was physically and verbally assaulted after a Mather House dance because of his sexual orientation. The incident intensified when gay students staged a "kiss-in" protest at the Mather dining hall. Later there were questions about teh original attack, but meanwhile the house, and the community at large, had split into camps which labeled each other as homophobic on the one hand and overly confrontational and "improper" on the other...
...what extent, it was asked, did individuals have to accept the actions of those with whom they disagreed? When, for example, did an ill-advised, aggressive pass become offensive? When did angry confrontation become a channel for bigotry? When did a protest intended to "protest hate with love" become repulsive, if ever...
Last week, in a test of strength between Palestinian activists and the Israeli army, the underground leadership of the intifadeh banned Gazans from working in Israel for two weeks. The strike was called to protest the army's latest method for controlling troublemakers: a computerized ID card listing any previous criminal charges that all Gaza men aged 16 to 60 must now carry. The army says about 65,000 of the cards have been issued; Palestinians claim to have confiscated and destroyed thousands of them...