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Word: protestations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels here protest against the everydayness, the drab practicality and utterly unfashionable common sense of the middle-class existence that is the national norm. This battle at Harvard against the colorless certainties and dread gaucherie of the bourgeois, (that is to say, the hometown) is fought for romanticism, for the unordinary and exotic--something to clothe the bare subsistence of bringing-up in a middle-class world...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Creeping Continentalism: In Search of the Exotic | 4/27/1957 | See Source »

There were two good reasons why Sukarno's plan seemed doomed to fail: first, he insisted on including Communist sympathizers or fellow travelers in the Emergency Cabinet; second was a rising crescendo of protest from separatist leaders in Sumatra, the Celebes and elsewhere, who decried the Emergency Cabinet as unconstitutional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: If God Wills It . . . | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Release of the committee report stirred the Department of External Affairs to protest publication of "irresponsible allegations" against Norman. After Norman's suicide, the department followed up with a stiffer note demanding assurance that security information supplied by Canadian agencies would not be released by U.S. agencies without Canada's permission. The plain presumption was that some part of the evidence against Norman had come from the Canadian government. But on this point, too, Pearson had to back down. In Parliament he admitted that the Senate subcommittee had not used Canadian sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Second Thoughts | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...should be given an opportunity to express doubt over future dangerous policies. Instead of being rushed too quickly into bomb research projects, the eighteen may now be given opportunity to continue work on hydrogen fusion at laboratory-induced temperatures--a promising German discovery in the peacetime nuclear field. Their protest has again shown the sensitive nature of Germans towards rearmament; rearmament whose nuclear aspects should be under strict NATO control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arma Virosque | 4/20/1957 | See Source »

...satisfactory arrangement with Egypt for operation of the canal--is that the United States should simply advise ship operators that if their vessels must use the waterway the operators should be alert to the requirements of U.S. Treasury regulations specifying that canal tolls be paid to Egypt only under protest...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Outlines Reductions Of 1.8 Billion in Appropriations; State Dept. to Issue Suez Policy | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

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