Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thurmond, the 1948 states rights' candidate for President of the U.S., defeated 66-year-old State Senator Edgar Brown in a fight to protest Brown's nomination by the state Democratic Executive Committee instead of by primary election, the chief instrument of democracy in one-party South Carolina. A few weeks ago, Governor James Byrnes endorsed...
Moscow's IZVESTIA: American voters registered a protest against Republican policy, rather than support of the Democrats, who did not hold out any concrete program. The returns showed that the American people do not approve the policy of fascism and aggression promoted by the U.S.A.'s leading circles...
...emotions. In three moves, Peking: <| Agreed without haggling to
Britain's demand for ?367,000 ($1,027,600) compensation for shooting
down a Cathay Pacific Skymaster off Hainan Island last July 23, in
which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking
has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good
grace and even promised that "measures have been taken to prevent
recurrence of such incidents."
...Negro went to the other hotel without a protest, but he had no illusions about why he had been sent away. "The desk clerk was discriminating against me because of my color," he said afterwards. "I walked away feeling that I would never want to put foot on Canadian soil again...
...longer a self conscious cub, but a swiftly-maturing Bear, Brown stands proudly in the midst of the more imposing Ivy group colleges. Gone are the high squeals of protest against accusations of inferiority. In their place have come the benign rumble of individuality.Noon class break on the Old Campus...