Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radicals, who had ardently wooed the Peronista vote, even promising to dissolve the Assembly if they gained control, trailed with 1,839,545. Juan Perón, in his time a popular tyrant who once polled close to 5,000,000 votes, drew fewer than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots in spite of the well-organized, well-financed campaign he had conducted from his Venezuelan exile...
...deal on a Buick. The clincher came at the fight's crucial moment. As Referee Ruby Goldstein snaffled the bludgeoned Jackson away from his opponent and signaled a TKO, Buick butted in, sealing off to millions of viewers all the activity in the ring. Some 400 letters of protest bombarded Buick...
Canada and the U.S. want to get along, can get along, and most of the time they do get along. But the closeness of contact makes irritation inevitable. In the last three years Ottawa has sent half a dozen stiff notes to Washington protesting U.S. trade restrictions. The case of Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman, who killed himself in Cairo after a U.S. Senate subcommittee revealed that he once had Communist connections, inspired bitter diplomatic notes and an outburst of anti-U.S. editorials. Proud that their currency is robustly solid, Canadians are furious when some U.S. shopkeeper or cab driver...
...TIME, Feb. 27, 1956). The reason: Kershaw, who had won $32,000 on a quiz program as a jazz expert, had said he was going to give some of his winnings to the N.A.A.C.P. Professor Morton B. King Jr., for 20 years chairman of the sociology department, resigned in protest, charging that the university "was no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which is essential for higher education to flourish." Instead of taking King's resignation as a warning that other professors might follow suit, the state house of representatives formally denounced him. urged...
...seaside villa near Lisbon suspected him of drawing signals for German submarines. They found as many a gallerygoer has, that Delaunay's circles were meaningless. Delaunay's output was small: he painted only about 400 oils. When pressed to paint more pictures, he used to protest, "I can only paint when I have something to say." As he lay dying at 56, he murmured regretfully, "There's so much more I have...