Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contrary to the previous Democratic explanation--that its voters simply failed to show up at the polls--Flynn attributed the success of Leo Isacson over his nominee Karl Propper to the strong public desire for "protest" on the Palestine issue...
...vehement protest against the recent resolution by the National Student Association's staff committee to sever relations with the International Union of Students was registered last night by Lawrence M. Jaffa 2D, chairman of the NSA's Northern New England Regional Division, and a member of the four-man board appointed in December to consider NSA-IUS affiliation...
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...Western nations had scores of possible answers to the Czech move. Instead of getting France to join last week in the kind of protest note that helped Hitler to power, France might have been induced to stop stalling on the question of Western German industry. Two U.S. Army divisions to Greece-with orders to clean up that mess-might have convinced the Italians that the U.S. was a friend worth having. People who live in threatened nations (and who doesn't?) need more than food; they need to have some assurance that the U.S. intends to win the peace...
...most men left their offices without protest. People who had bitterly denounced the action committees a few days before were now happy if they were allowed to join them. Throughout the country there was an unseemly rush.to join the Communist Party; district party workers labored over piles of applications. (Gottwald announced that party membership had risen to 1,400,000 from 1,250,000.) There was no resistance because there was no hope. The people might have resisted had Benes moved; Benes might have resisted, had the people moved...