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Word: protestations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Party have resigned in disgust. More ominous are the first signs of disaffection in Turkey's heretofore scrupulously nonpolitical army. The government admitted last week that it had arrested eight active army officers on charges of "plotting," and popular Defense Minister Semi Ergin resigned, apparently in protest against the arrests. (His successor: Ethem Menderes, no kin.) Foreigners watch Adnan Menderes' headlong economic rush, and wait unhappily for the day of reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says one U.S. observer, "and somebody has to outbrink him sooner or later." Even Menderes himself once moodily remarked: "You know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...upon France's touchy national pride -the kind of opportunity he invariably seizes when he finds himself in domestic political difficulties. Last week, little more than 24 hours after the attack, French Ambassador to Tunisia Georges Gorse appeared at the Tunisian Foreign Ministry with a stiff note of protest demanding the return of the four captured Frenchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Pride & Practicality | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...between the "foreigners" in the north. Now, though they still live in prehistory's backyard, many of the southerners are demanding increased local autonomy in return for their votes. Two and a half years ago, more than 200 people were killed when southerners staged a mass uprising in protest at discrimination against them by their administrators from the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: Promise on the Nile | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Violent Action Committee has announced its intention to halt nuclear tests in a letter to President Eisenhower and United Nations officials. Lawrence Scott, leader of the Nevada protest, said the committee is working on plans to send a delegation to the Soviet Union. "We desire to bring to the Russian people the same moral demand to stop preparation for nuclear war," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate to Sail into Pacific Bomb Test Area In Pacifist Challenge to Nuclear Arm Drive | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Grandfather of the present Lord Salisbury, who last year as Tory leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council resigned in protest against Harold Macmillan's Cyprus policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Percent Difference | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

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