Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dashing, Decisive." By late March, when Lord Salisbury resigned from the Cabinet in protest over the release of Archbishop Makarios, Macmillan could treat Salisbury's departure as an unfortunate but far from calamitous incident. That is what it proved...
...window. "You will have to take me out dead or tied up," he called into the darkness. "You know the kind of fight I can put up." When news of the impending fight spread through the city, a group of leading citizens dashed to the bishop to protest. By telephone, Monsignor Medina routed Cardinal Luque out of bed. Nervously aware of the church's anger, the government hurriedly called off the attack...
...book-burning of Language and Informal Logic, the textbook General Education A used just this one year and intends to drop. Although the volume was panned--with considerable justification--in a recent Atlantic Monthly article, no riots over it are expected. General Education A does meet a more subtle protest, however, in widespread apathy towards its bi-weekly round of reading and papers. More words are written in less time for Gen Ed than perhaps any other course in the University...
...cool of the early morning, S.S. President Jackson moved into Suez and took on veteran Egyptian Pilot Mahmoud Metwali. The Jackson paid $10,295 in tolls with a polite note indicating that she was obeying U.S. Government instructions to pay under protest. Then, with the U.S. flag flying at the stern and the green Egyptian flag at the foremast truck, President Jackson steamed slowly northward into the canal at the head of a convoy of four ships. Mahmoud Younis, manager of Egypt's Suez Canal administration, wired the twelve passengers a Happy Easter and a pleasant trip. At Ismailia...
...charged Stout with "inhuman and capricious treatment." Finally, in 1956, 300 students demonstrated in downtown Reno, hung their president in effigy, waved placards reading "Out with Stout." With no hearing at all, the administration expelled six student demonstrators only to have to back down in the face of public protest...