Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made to be broken. But when they prohibit a man from a share of greatness, discontent will naturally arise. Because the No Smoking rule in Memorial Hall technically makes it impossible for the freshmen to hold their Smoker there, an entire Harvard class may rise in righteous protest, its desire to be great for a night brutally dashed...
...licensed dailies, most of them closely tied to the political parties. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant "has licensed a pure sensation sheet," cried the pro-Christian Democratic Der Abend. "A sensational, apolitical paper lulls to sleep the will to remain free." Conant quickly replied to the protest that "my refusal to grant such a license could be construed as protection of an existing quasi-cartel." BZ's Editor Wilhelm Schulze, who ran the paper before Goebbels named his successor, hoped to get half a million readers again by sticking to BZ's old formula. Said...
...they do protest and picket, they ought to make their handbills accurate," Mather charged. "Those leaflets they handed out under the American Legion and Protect America League seals were just filled with factual inaccuracies and erroneous references...
According to an Ohio paper, the protest followed a speech in nearby Middletown, where a research specialist for the Legion had bitterly attacked Mather...
Hence the Yale students as well as the visitors suffer from the revised plan, but McDermott reports, "We have little or no complaint from the undergraduates." And what protest there is will undoubtedly soon die a natural death, for only the Class of 1954 was around in the good old days, when Eli students were on the shady side of the street...