Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform movement that flowered in the spring of 1968. So it was hardly surprising that he was arrested on Jan. 16, along with eight other activists, while trying to lay flowers in Prague's Wenceslas Square. That was where student Jan Palach set himself ablaze two decades earlier to protest the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia...
Last week Havel told his judges of his appearance in Wenceslas Square: "I was there for one hour. Something happened that I had never even dreamed of. After the totally unnecessary intervention by the police, the onlookers ^ changed into real protesters." He was sentenced to nine months for inciting a public protest and obstructing a public official who had ordered him to leave the square...
...should be one that is led, developed programmatically and implemented by sports people with intimate knowledge of their institution. If those sports people fail to meet their obligations to move the institution ahead, in terms of broadening democratic participation, then you'll begin to get the civil rights people, protest interests and the lawyers stepping...
...Khomeini repeated his threat again and again, Western governments at last began to take action. Led by Britain and strongly supported by West Germany, the twelve members of the European Community voted to withdraw their top-ranking diplomats from Tehran in protest. So did Canada, Sweden and Norway. Iran swiftly retaliated by pulling most of its own ambassadors out of Western Europe...
...commercial success is assured; yet for almost a week, such leading chains as Waldenbooks, B. Dalton and Barnes & Noble kept their remaining copies off the shelves. In New York City the Authors Guild, the PEN American Center and the Writers Guild of America (East) fired off letters of protest to the bookstore chains, criticizing them for caving in to censorship by terrorism...