Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murray's difficulties with Strauss, ironically, have been similar to those that Republican Strauss had while a member of the AEC during the Truman Administration. Through continual run-ins with David Lilienthal, then AEC Chairman, Strauss won a reputation as the "great dissenter" before he resigned in protest against what he then called Lilienthal's one-man rule...
Adams House students are composing a petition to protest the rumored installation of a new tile floor in the dining hall...
...absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints as well as the formal basis for intervention under the laws and court decisions...
...that their tankers would soon follow. In line with U.S. policy as clarified by President Eisenhower last week-shippers should "be prudent" in using the canal, but "I don't believe we have told them they shouldn't use it"-the Jackson will pay its dues "under protest...
...Bachelor Party, the second hyper-realistic effort of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, is about the stunning weight of responsibility, and the revulsion from it, that a young man feels when his wife becomes pregnant for the first time. His protest against the complications of a home and family that are about to entangle him for life becomes a desire to sleep with a young woman he meets in Greenwich Village on the night of the party...