Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain joined with the Israelis in an indignant protest at the murder of their nationals. Despite the silken talk at Geneva, the Curtain still was made of Iron...
...cockcrow one day last week, loudspeaker trucks began to cruise slowly through Saigon's streets. "Countrymen," they blared, "come to the popular meeting to protest against the Geneva agreements. This is the 20th of July, a national mourning day. One year ago at Geneva our country was partitioned against our will...
...Commuter Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, fired off a formal protest to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the New York Public Service Commission listing six specific complaints against McGinnis' operation of the New Haven. Among the charges: trains are so dangerously crowded that passengers must ride in the vestibules; engineers exceed the speed limits trying to make up time lost in slow loading procedures; McGinnis' claim of 89% on-time performance is untrue as far as commuter trains are concerned. By Cousins' own count, only six of 30 trains were on time during one month...
...wish to protest against your picture of the Burmese Prime Minister's backstage visit to Kismet [July 4]. Although it is quite obvious that U Nu knew what he was doing, a family newsmagazine is hardly the proper place for this bust-by-jowl juxtaposition of the traditionally quiet Eastern dress and the pseudo-Eastern undress...
Leaflets & Buses. Next day, as the rioting rolled on, anonymous leaflets flooded the city urging Frenchmen to take up arms in protest against the Café Gonin bombing and Grandval's "soft" policy. In groups of two and three hundred, European vigilantes stormed through the city, pillaging and burning native shops, overturning buses. Most vengeful were the Pied Noir (Black Foot), half-breeds of mixed Italian, Spanish and Moroccan blood and Morocco's equivalent of the South's "poor white," who hate the native Moroccans with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart...