Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aung San himself had acted under pressure. Although he publicly clamors for complete independence, he privately favors a tie-up with Britain as a means of ensuring military protection. His main rival is Communist Than Tun, who instigated protest strikes against Aung's less extreme attitude toward the British...
London Times Associate Editor Donald Tyerman, another polio sufferer, wrote a letter to his own columns, disagreeing with the complaints. Said he: "The protest . . is surely based on a misconception. The ambition and pride of the disabled, as I have some reason to know, is to stand on their own feet...
...College theater must be experimental theater," West asserted after his resignation in protest to the H.D.C. executive committee's action...
Their journal strayed far from the path they blazed, got lost more than once in the plush-horse latitudes of high society. But later editors kept up their fight for women's rights, gumptiously ran Chabas' September Morn (1912) in protest against the prudish post-Victorian ban on nudes. To instruct the well-to-do in the things it was well to do, they helped make skiing, motoring and flying socially acceptable...
...frank, unsubtle study of homosexuality, The Fall of Valor, nothing more successfully satirical than John Marquand's B. F.'s Daughter, nothing more socially rebellious than James T. Farrell's Bernard Clare, or Frederic Wakeman's The Hucksters, a now-gamey-now-gooey protest against the kind of ad man he had been...