Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed a puzzling problem, Mr. Brunner, We were frankly stumped for some time. Webster's Dictionary informs us only that "a Bohemian adopts a mode of life in protest against the common conventions of society," and that "pseudo" means "sham...
...along, we have sought to carry out the protest on high moral standards . . . rooted in the deep soils of the Christian faith. We have carefully avoided bitterness. [The] months have not at all been easy . . . Our feet have often been tired and our automobiles worn, but we have kept going with the faith that in our struggle we had cosmic companionship, and that, at bottom, the universe is on the side of justice. [The Supreme Court's decision was] a revelation of the eternal validity of this faith, [and] came to all of us as a joyous daybreak...
...admitted it had broadcast three types of material that may have stirred up the insurgents, but only after actual fighting had begun: 1) full reporting of the violent attacks in the U.N. on the Soviets; 2) full coverage of protest action throughout the free world; and 3) news from isolated freedom stations. U.S. policy advisers were also hard put to keep angry Hungarians on RFE's staff in line. But the broadcasts were tame. Sample: "The fight has begun and it is going on-not only in the streets but also in the hearts and souls of the people...
...matter of good business, as well as from personal conviction, the average top executive spends up to one-third of his time on community projects (TIME, Sept. 24), expects his subordinates to follow his example. While businessmen had to be forced under protest to adopt measures such as the guaranteed annual wage and pension funds, they have voluntarily introduced profit-sharing and stock-purchase plans, launched vast human-relations programs that give the employee all manner of benefits from psychiatry to symphonies...
...Torcello, Harry's Bar, Murano, Burano, the pigeons, the glass beads, the vaporetto. Venice is a folding picture-postcard of itself." But Tourist McCarthy is no ordinary tourist. Whether she is discussing the merits of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini, Giorgione, or building up a rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp of a rangy mind not to be fobbed off with commonplaces. To get the feel of Venice, she proceeds not by touch, but by touchstones...