Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of the priests are white, French-born and close to the mulatto upper classes that strongly oppose Duvalier, a Catholic himself but with close political links to the voodoo priesthood. When 1,000 priests, nuns and churchgoers gathered in Port-au-Prince's Notre Dame Cathedral to protest the expulsion order, Clement Barbot, the President's cold-eyed secretary and secret police chief, led a gang of bullyboys into the cathedral on a wild, baton-swinging charge, arrested...
...famous discipline which regulates Methodist teaching protests against Catholic teaching. Would you in public office be required to protest or suppress Catholic teaching as directed in this document? The moral, concluded The Pilot: "Anyone can play this game, if he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty...
...captain in the king's guards, one Count de Lauzun, who was half a dozen years and a foot or so her junior. She wooed him ardently. For three happy days, Louis XIV gave his grudging consent to the match, then withdrew it when a storm of popular protest blew up. The Sun King broke Mademoiselle's heart with the wondrously uncharacteristic words: "Kings must please the public...
...made plan to bury the bill in subcommittee. Less than an hour later, one of Zagri's ever-busy committee leaks supplied him with a tally on each member's vote. That same day he telephoned union leaders in each swing man's home district, urged protests against the Congressman's "betrayal" of labor. Commanding one A.F.L.-C.I.O. Steelworker official to put the heat on a New Jersey Congressman, Zagri spoke like a crusader on a trailer-truck parking lot: "Get a delegation down here tomorrow morning and tear his door down." He provided his agents...
Clipping Coupons. Expressed in the hostility toward public spending were both longaccumulated annoyance at the bite of taxation and sharp awareness of the nibble of price upcreep. In response to a recent Los Angeles Times campaign urging readers to write to their Congressmen in protest against inflationary federal spending, more than 30,000 letters descended on California members of Congress. The Chicago Tribune printed handy "stop inflation" coupons, and more than 130,000 were clipped out by readers and mailed to Springfield and Washington...