Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look! . . . The Administration has ways at its disposal to get [U.S. surplus] wheat and send it overseas. If things really get tough, we will accept rationing. Of course we will groan and grumble and protest, but that only expresses our discomfort, not our displeasure...
Shepard's many friends among Trinity alumni promptly bombarded Funston with protest telegrams and letters. But Trinity's executive committee, all conservative Hartford businessmen, backed up the president. They have long distrusted Shepard's "radical" notions about banks, utilities and big business...
Purpose of the ad: to sell the special monthly "Atomic Service" of Babson's Reports, Inc., which promised to help clients to "invest in companies which have little invested in such cities." Instead of new clients, Babson got a storm of protest from Boston businessmen...
While a five-hour debate raged in Parliament, eight of the Sultans prepared to leave for London to protest in person. A ninth, the fabulous, 72-year-old ex-playboy Sultan of Johore was already there, leading the fight from a swank suite in Grosvenor House. Gone were the days when British officials used to remove him (for his own good) from Singapore nightspots at 10 p.m.; now he was telling the British where to head...
...much by political as by scientific considerations. Few if any U.S. academicians were Communist partisans. But nearly all scientists look back with longing to their golden age before Hitler and World War II, when science was free and truly international. The honor the Academy bestowed on Kapitza was a protest against the bristling barriers of secrecy and suspicion that now separate the scientists of the world...