Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some could not believe at first that the news was true. Example: many Swedes telephoned Stockholm newspapers to protest that the times were too serious for playing April Fool jokes in the headlines. Even the Communists were perplexed. Example: after years of obediently denouncing NATO as "aggressive . . . warmongering . . . imperialist," editorialists for East German newspapers stumbled all over themselves trying to explain why the Kremlin was suddenly applying for NATO membership and inviting the American imperialists into the peace-loving proletarian camp...
...surprised French colonials quickly clapped some Goubert men in jail, banned public meetings and put police guards around the Indian consulate; they stopped all Indian traders at the frontier. Police shot and wounded four "illegal" demonstrators. Nehru got off a hot protest note to Paris. Paris called in Nehru's ambassador and protested right back...
...midst of a stormy week, Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy struck a brawny pose for an intimate picture snapped in the bathroom of his Washington home, where he lathered up his heavy beard for a shave. Meanwhile, some 600 University of Texas students rallied in protest against the choice of McCarthy "to speak for Texans" at the state's hallowed San Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman...
Costa Rica, alone among the American republics, boycotted the Tenth Inter-American Conference at Caracas as a form of protest against the jailing of political prisoners by the Venezuelan government. But when he announced Costa Rica's decision, President Jose Figueres made a promise that his country would "adhere to any inter-American resolutions taken there for the betterment of democracy...
...sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted in keeping with the Eisenhower Administration's policy of freer trade. The Indians protest that the imported beadwork is phony. But the Navaho craftsmen themselves work with factory-made beads imported from Italy and Czechoslovakia...