Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European free trade area, he has earned wide respect for his ability in administering the thorny ministries of Pensions and Agriculture, has been described as "everybody's second choice for every senior post in the government." Thorneycroft was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer to resign in protest against government policy since 1886, when Lord Randolph Churchill. Sir Winston's father, quit the Cabinet of Lord Salisbury.* Despite all Harold Macmillan's reassurances, so drastic a protest inevitably stirred fears that the government was, in fact, backing away from the stern fiscal policies that have halted...
False Alarm. In Wethersfield, Conn., William H. Coney was fined $6 for having a noisy muffler, despite his protest that it kept him from falling asleep while driving...
...Mail did not stoop to reply, but its sister Rothermere paper, the Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), cried in protest: "Utter rubbish." Added the Sketch: "If the Daily Express manages to get one reader to the South Pole by the end of January, we will pay ?500 to any charity the Daily Express chooses." In the midst of the English winter, hundreds of Express readers entered the contest to get to the Pole. But at week's end, while Fleet Street bet privately that the Sketch's money was safe, the Mail's Barber...
...Blue" faction (named for the hue of its blood), led by a scientist, mathematician and relative youngster, the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld, 62. An oldtime suffragette and notorious pincher of sous (says a fellow juror: "She dresses in a splendid mink coat lined with rayon"), the Duchesse blazed in protest when her arch-antagonist grandly announced that she would accept no other Femina choice for 1957 than Le Carre four des Solitudes (The Crossroads of Loneliness), by Christian Mégret...
Your Dec. 2 report on the French Cameroons called "Jungle Terror" conveys an erroneous picture of the situation. I should like to protest against your characterization of myself as "Red-trained." I am not a Communist, but a Presbyterian, and my desire is simply to see my country free and united. I also wish to protest against your calling our organization, the UPC [Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons], Communist, and against your calling our secretary-general, Mr. Ruben Um Nyobe, a Communist...