Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chicanery. There was no need for any. Premier Diem got his 98.2% of the vote. Only a few thousand among the 5,828,000 ballots were found to be invalid, a crushing defeat for the Communists, who had urged that defaced ballots be cast as a gesture of protest...
...bright prospects are not reflected by the Negro press as a whole. Most other Negro editors have been slow to learn that in an era of rapid progress toward full social, economic and political citizenship, the Negro is fast losing his interest in editorial policies largely based on racial protest and sensational handling of news. Moreover, the white press is doing a more thorough job of covering Negro news, e.g., the Washington Post and Times Herald and the New York Herald Tribune have even carried stories about Negro activities on their society pages. As a result, most Negro publications...
...fall of 1951, when suddenly an uncomfortably cogent argument drifted up from New Haven. Yale, it seemed, had extended its upperclass parietal hours to 11 p.m. on all Saturdays, and had found the new rule working "better than we expected." Reminded that the Connecticut university had been founded "in protest against the liberalism of Harvard," and encouraged by the reduced demands of undergraduates here for 11 p.m. instead of midnight permissions, the Masters at last saw their chance to eliminate the 1 to 4 p.m. parietal hours and to compensate by granting a reasonable extension on Saturday evenings. That fall...
...million Americans have by this week signed their 1954 income-tax forms. . . . They did this, wonderful to tell, without riots or protest. . . . It has become more and more unfashionable to criticize the income-tax level." (April...
After the game, Bucknell Coach Harry Lawrence said he was not planning to protest the game. "It was one of those things," he said stoically...