Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the gate, Karaolis' mother sat on a little chair. An air of smoldering enmity hung over the capital city of Nicosia. Shops shut tight in protest; workers left jobs. Men no longer sat at cafes but lounged sullenly at the curbs; they glared and spat as young British troopers rattled past in Land Rovers, their Bren guns trained outboard...
...Manners Abroad. Moscow radio announced that the Kremlin had sent an official note to Whitehall concerning what Pravda called this "shameful espionage." With a lack of diplomatic good manners, the Russians went on to quote their protest and the British reply...
...Zamorano is a very good man," the bishop admitted, but his warning was no idle threat. Last week the people of Catapilco held an angry testimonial meeting to back Zamorano; then, even angrier, they staged a one-day protest strike. The governor had to send ten fully armed carabineros to keep order. All protest failed. Padre Zamorano was duly dismissed as parish priest of Catapilco. But he stayed on as the village's elected councilman...
...strip has been well-received in translation," Capp explained. "They're even holding a Scherezade Hawkins Day in Portugal. But three times the English have risen as a man to protest against Li'l Abner. I know nothing about international affairs. Try my translators...
Zvons, however, are not without use in the western world, Edmund M. Parson '58, manager of the new society, insists. When Mercury Recordings produced the 1812 Overture recently, the company employed Yale's Harkness Tower chimes to simulate Russian bells. The Lowell bell-ringers are writing a letter in protest to a statement by the record's narrator that Yale's carillon gave the nearest facimile to Russian bells available in the United States...