Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes she went too far, as children do, and we were fed up with her. Sometimes we felt that she was deceiving us. She doth protest too much, we occasionally thought, when she complained about the attentions of the paparazzi. When, after so many years of burning extravagant candles at both ends, she died at last so squalidly in that underpass, some of us for a moment thought, as the Friar thought about Romeo and Juliet, "These violent delights have violent ends...
Rudenstine's timing for entering the national debate is not just fortuitous-it is necessary. If he and others do not protest the destruction of the status quo, the values he has advanced his entire life may vanish in a flurry of legislation...
Rudenstine's timing for entering the national debate is not just fortuitous-it is necessary. If he and others do not protest the destruction of the status quo, the values he has advanced his entire life may vanish in a flurry of legislation...
...fraternity row and set off a round of back-to-school soul searching about binge drinking on campuses all over the U.S. Just days before the incident, The Princeton Review had ranked L.S.U. as No. 10 in the nation on a list of "top party schools." L.S.U. officials protest that their school is no worse than many others, which underscores the larger issue. A Harvard survey of 18,000 undergraduates found that 44% said they had engaged in binge drinking--four to five drinks in a row--in the previous two weeks. "Most schools realize they are just one tragedy...
...University of Iowa and Ohio State, have recently been the site of "beer riots," some set off by toughened alcohol policies. At Colorado, scores of police and students were injured when a mob of 1,500 threw bricks and Molotov cocktails over a three-day period last May to protest a crackdown on drinking...