Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed unhappily symbolic of a whole accumulation of woes and ills which has beset the "silent service" since the end of World War II. Harder is one of six new attack submarines equipped with novel lightweight diesel engines which the Navy's Bureau of Ships adopted over the protest of many submariners. All six ships have had engine problems comparable to Harder's, and are now being newly designed for an older-type engine. The Bureau of Ships also ignored the submariners' warnings, when it decided to construct three small, 750-ton "killer" subs. Now the whole...
...have tried everything else-maybe the atomic bomb will bring the Red barbarians to their senses as it did the Japanese. I know that some will protest that the atomic bomb is an immoral weapon. I agree that it is. But so are all other man-killing weapons of war . . . When will we learn that you don't stop the Red murderers by merely playing tiddlywinks with them...
...Teheran Premier Mossadegh told the nation it must choose between him and that "hotbed of wrecking operations," the Majlis. The opposition met in Mullah Kashani's garden to protest, and got into a knife fight (one killed, scores hurt). But these stirring events did not arouse southern Iranians to their customary passion. The reason: it was 120° in the shade...
...Governor Gordon Persons publicly and profanely denounced the Advertiser's Political Writer Geoffrey Birt, it seemed to Editor Grover C. Hall Jr. that it was time for a change. For the first time, the Advertiser printed the words "son of a bitch" -and waited for a storm of protest from its readers. By last week the storm signals were down. Only five readers had written in, three of them criticizing the governor...
When a former Methodist churchman named J. B. Matthews made the charge that U.S. Protestant ministers "are the largest single group supporting" Communism in the U.S. (TIME, July 13), he was hit by thunderbolts of protest. They forced him to resign as executive director of Joe McCarthy's Senate subcommittee, and showed clearly that U.S. Protestants trust their clergy. But they threw little light on J. B. Matthews himself. In last week's Christian Century, Editor Paul Hutchinson, who once "knew him well and . . . liked him greatly," writes an account of him, in order to show "what strange...