Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others at this protest gathering include Leo Cherne, chairman of the International Rescue Committee, who arrived last Saturday from Budapest, and former Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, committee president, who flew from Austria Wednesday. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, honorary chairman, and General William Donovan, chairman of the national committee, will also speak...
...began slicing up the opposition with his "salami tactics" (a slice at a time), Nagy gave Communism its soft face. Appointed Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, he made a reputation as a "sincere" and "earnest" speechmaker, taught agrarian science at Budapest University, published books on theology, made no protest when his daughter married a practicing Protestant clergyman. By sitting around Budapest cafes fingering his soup-strainer mustache, talking soccer and politics, hinting that there were other methods of doing things than those adopted by Russians, he cultivated "liberal" attitude, but miraculously survived when (after Tito's defection from Stalin...
...streets to celebrate a victory over Roman bureaucracy and a triumph for local art and tourism. The Italian government, which had assembled 33 Italian masterpieces* for a good-will tour of Washington's National Gallery and Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, had bowed to the storm of protest from Italians who wanted their treasures kept right at home, suspended plans to send the show abroad until scientific tests could be made to guarantee that no harm would come to the traveling masterpieces...
Florentine artists and students took the protest into the streets and the Italian press, from Communist left to Fascist right, whooped to their support. The climax came when four artists barricaded themselves in the bare cell atop Florence's 280-ft.-tall Tower of Arnulfo, announced that they would not come down until the government surrendered...
This is a letter, probably ineffectual, to protest the raking of leaves in the Yard. I realize that this is not done maliciously, that the men who do it have good reasons. Therefore, this letter may best be tossed aside...