Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protest, Bridges' I.L.W.U. men quickly began walking off jobs. A dozen ships were tied up at Hawaiian docks, two others sailed without full cargoes. Trucks were abandoned by union drivers on the highway, and mill workers quit their machines...
...everything was going much like the day before when thousands had marched through the streets in protest, and surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily...
Worried about the establishment of a new kind of censorship, based on the mayor's interpretation of the riot act, the film studio threatened the mayor with a suit. He had not protested a few weeks earlier when a bare-breasted film called The Is land of Nude Women had been shown in Niort; why did he protest against Caroline? The mayor admitted that he hadn't seen Caroline Chérie himself. He would talk it over with the municipal council. Weighing the risk of civil suit against church displeasure, the council last week tried to satisfy...
...After the storm of protest when he fired Dr. Allen V. Astin as head of the National Bureau of Standards, Commerce Secretary Weeks decided...
Stout eventually changed his mind about the other four, but his attempt to dismiss Richardson raised an academic hue & cry far beyond Nevada's borders. At the University of Illinois, dozens of facultymen'signed a petition of protest; other petitions went the rounds at Stanford and the University of California. Meanwhile, four Reno lawyers offered to fight Richardson's case without fee. This week the case was up before the board of regents...