Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MUST PROTEST YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT ME [TIME, JAN. 26]. YOU QUOTE ME AS SEVERELY CRITICIZING RADIO REPORTING AS SUPERFICIAL AND RADIO REPORTERS AS UNTHOROUGH. . . . OUT OF A TWO-HOUR CONVERSATION WITH YOUR REPORTER IN WHICH I TRIED TO GIVE AN HONEST ESTIMATE OF WHAT IS FINE AND WHAT IS BAD ABOUT RADIO JOURNALISM, YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO PRINT FOUR SENTENCES. THESE . . . HAVE RATHER CRUELLY MISREPRESENTED MY VIEWS AND HAVE DONE INJURY TO MY POSITION VIS-À-VIS MY PROFESSION AND MY COLLEAGUES IN RADIO FOR MOST OF WHOM I FEEL THE GREATEST RESPECT. ERIC SEVAREID Washington...
...item under the head of Hosenselbständigkeitsgefühl [TIME, Jan. 5] . . . I have been delegated . . . to express admiration for the writer who understands the security of pants (Hosenselbständigkeit) and who deals with the subject with such deftness; but, on a vote taken, there was a protest against the writer's translation of the crisp word. We believe that it is better rendered as Confidence-in-your-pants-remaining-in-position -without -further-worry. A minority would substitute "panties" for "pants...
...fortnight ago in Miami, she is an alien. She came to the U.S. from Trinidad in 1924, and the Department of Justice would like to send her back. She spent one night on Ellis Island and then was bailed out for $1,000. Promptly the Communist apparatus of protest (which involves meetings, indignant telegrams, denunciations) meshed into gear...
...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...
...people in Bagdad were not happy. Thousands surged through Rashid Street, Bagdad's dingy main thoroughfare, clamoring for "full independence and sovereignty." Soldiers turned back a mob which tried to close in on the British Embassy. Police and soldiers fired into the crowds. Students went on protest strikes. One correspondent reported that "girl students . . . demonstrated as fiercely as the men, clashed with police, and received bites and injuries; this aroused the public...