Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Communist Party the "camouflaged fifth column of Moscow," the Communists seized copies of Le Figaro from Paris newsstands and burned them. Last month the morning paper had to barricade its doors and windows as 1,500 Communists rioted outside. They had made the most of the opportunity to protest against publication of the memoirs of Nazi Storm Trooper Otto ("Scarface") Skorzeny, who led the paratroop raid to release Mussolini...
...time he graduated from Lawrenceville, he had written enough to know he wanted to compose. His mother's reaction to this decision was, "All right, but what will you do for a living?" She did not protest, however, when he spent all his time at Harvard composing, an occupation which brought him two undergraduate awards and a performance of one of his prize-winning works by Archibald Davison, the present James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
After more than a year of protest, the Educational Policy Committee set up McKay's committee last May. At the time, Buck said the committee would decide "what to reinstate' 'as well as consider the place of the field in the curriculum. A few weeks earlier, a Board of Overseers' report is believed to have recommended the resumption of geography in the University...
...Stalin a cablegram, quoting Lenin at him to prove that Stalin really shouldn't be so beastly to Czechoslovakia. He also dispatched a third message, to President Truman, asking asylum in the U.S. for himself, his wife and two daughters. "I [do] so," he wrote, "in order to protest to the whole world against the methods which are being used in Eastern European countries...
...temper and tactics of FDJ chieftains was well-expressed by agile, aggressive Robert Bialek, who explained: "We'll take care of our church and political enemies. You sock them in the teeth until they fall. Then they write a letter of protest. You let them get up, read the letter, and then knock them down again...