Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier in the week the U.S. had received a request from Britain for a waiver of payment of some $81 million of interest due this month on past U.S. loans. There was every indication that Congress will, after some protest, grant the request. The U.S. was ready to provide the International Monetary Fund with approximately $500 million in cash. There is also talk in Washington that the U.S. Export-Import Bank might be ready to advance perhaps $200 million in loans to finance purchases of Western Hemisphere...
...prospect of a dual government was a challenge that Kadar's Russian bosses could not abide. Last week Kadar's newly revamped secret police began arresting leaders of factory workers' councils. Workers in a dozen plants struck in protest, and the roused patriots of Budapest tangled with Kadar's cops in the streets. Four died in one fight that started when Kadar forces paraded the Red flag past the West railway station. In the countryside scores were reported killed fighting against police and Russian soldiers -ten in the mining center of Tatabanya alone. The Budapest Workers...
Prod & Nudge. Yet it would be wrong to say that for the people of the satellites there was no future in protest. It is precisely their resistance that makes possible the belief that the whole Soviet regime must in time come tumbling down, destroyed by its own cruelties, repressions, rivalries, indecisions, failures. And should the Soviet empire collapse in this way, the whole world and not just the U.S. could be grateful that it was achieved without the mutual devastation of nuclear war. In the crumbling, many innocent people would be hurt, crushed, killed. Having denied itself the ultimate weapon...
Freshmen can still appeal to the President of the University, as two freshmen with poor heating can testify. Two Yardlings wrote a letter to President Pusey to protest the "chronic lack of heat" in South Weld, and by the next day, the Buildings and Grounds Department had installed new heating facilities in the dormitory...
When Koestler described those days in 1953, he apologized, "I found it impossible to revive the naive enthusiasm of the period." This was not Hughes' way. His enthusiasm stayed fresh because it was for people and things, not ideas, which date faster. While he protested violently against the Scottsboro decision and later against Franco's bombing of Madrid, his protest was not a Party member's but always that of an individual. As he was convinced by the discovery of a swank little restaurant in Tashkent: "The system under which the succesful live--left or right, capitalist or communist...