Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club often gets support for bills simply because he "wants" it. The Inner Club will often kill a measure because the Club wasn't consulted. An Inner Club man is a Senate man, rather than a party man or a President's man. That is why he will not protest Senator Knowland's attacks on Eisenhower's Asian policy. These attacks emphasize the Senate's independence...
...halting dialogue seems to call for and handles the part with considerable perception and feeling. His wife, sensitively portrayed by Elsa Grieder, keeps him from his chosen profession with all the wiles of a woman and he resents it. Mr. Hargrove seems to be making the artist's old protest that women sap his freedom and his creativity...
...Lerch of the luxurious Hotel George V saw a TIME footnote about President Eisenhower's cooking and bubbled up in rage like a fondue that has been too close to the fire too long. "It's not true," Chef Lerch cried and fired off a protest to TIME'S editors. In Troy, N.Y. Eighth-Grader Lisa Fitzgerald read our review of Humorist H. Allen Smith's Write Me a Poem, Baby. Lisa, who writes poetry and reviews for the Willard Day School literary magazine Pipes of Pan, was delighted, and she sat right down and wrote...
...there were other ways of reaching the Egyptian dictator. Cyril Banks, a Tory M.P. who had quit his party in protest over the Suez occupation, was a close friend of the Moorhouse family and also knew Nasser from his days as a Middle East hand. "What would you really like me to do?" he asked Moorhouse. "Get over to Cairo," was the answer. "I believe that you could bring my son back if he is still alive." Banks promised to do what he could. By now the War Office, the Foreign Office, U.N. headquarters and 10 Downing Street were...
...after election, 27 of Naha's 30 city councilors announced that they would "refuse to cooperate with a Communist mayor pledged to destroy all the progress Naha has made with the aid and good will of the U.S." Simultaneously, all 22 of the city department heads resigned "in protest against serving under ex-Convict Senaga." Moriyasu Tomihara, president of the Bank of the Ryukyus (in which the U.S. holds 51% of the stock and supplies nearly all the funds), declared that "no more money will be advanced to Naha city because of the changed situation," and froze payment...