Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest! To call our nation's highest court an "inept fraternity of politicians and professors" is mockery beyond forgiveness [June 13]. Agreement or disagreement with a decision from the court is no basis for such a smear as printed by the Richmond News Leader. Those who criticize so noble a tribunal behind the cloak of a free press are not worthy of the freedom they possess. Clear-thinking Americans cannot help respect the determination of the U.S. Supreme Court to keep America the "land of the free...
...spleen. "Dogs that are tied up and fenced continuously will become excited and grieved," warned grieved, excited Attorney Philip Rossman, the Denver dog's best friend. "On behalf of Rusty, my old Irish setter," the Denver Post's veteran Statehouse Reporter Bert Hanna wrote a misty-eyed protest: "It will be the end of Rusty. He could not live under those restrictions . . . When this law is passed, he will pass quietly away...
...Protest. When his appointment was announced, the rector and his entire senate (some 20 professors) at the University of Göttingen resigned in shocked protest. Then followed one of the most heartfelt outbursts of democratic feeling in West Germany's brief history. Students all over Germany protested; Göttingen's 5,000 students remained off campus, educators and scientists flooded the state government with protests. The West German press blasted him with editorials, devoting more space to his case than to Khrushchev's visit to Belgrade. Said the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Schl...
...offered the Hoa Hao a chance to integrate themselves into the national army and form a peaceful political party, but the Hoa Hao replied by raiding Diem's outposts and blowing up bridges. Ba Cut, commander of the Hoa Hao army, who wears his hair neck-long in protest against the Geneva Treaty, threatened to behead Ngo Dinh Diem as a warning to those who did not fear the mighty...
...last turns to Clark Gable. A keen-eyed soldier of fortune who smuggles strategic goods to the Reds, Clark is more interested in releasing Susan from her inhibitions than her husband from jail. But a series of rebuffs (each time he kisses her she responds with a maidenly protest) makes him realize that this is a girl in a million-well, in a thousand. Clark determines to do the manly thing : he will produce her husband and let Susan choose between them...