Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous U.S. newspaperman; Elsa wants to spout her own grievances, including how she meant to write a novel but had twins by a bandleader instead. Ro and Elsa have come to Havana to make love, with a view to marriage, but when he touches her, she starts to protest: "Not yet . . . It's got to be right ..." Frigid Elsa drinks one Daiquiri after another and does not stop talking until she is unconscious, so Ro lets her drone on and tells his life story to himself and the reader...
...current concert tour of Latin America, Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein arrived in Cali, Colombia, irately plopped himself on the customs house floor to protest slow processing of his papers...
Mack had at least one defender. Tough, outspoken National Airlines President George T. Baker, who in 40 years had personally built a 140-mile airmail run into a lucrative. 3.400-mile passenger route. Baker, a fellow Floridian, appeared before the FCC-probing House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight to protest that Mack was "being broken, crucified and . . . sent home in disgrace." But "more guilty," insisted Baker, were Florida's Democratic Senators George Smathers and Spessard Holland, together with Tennessee's Estes Kefauver. Their crime, to Baker's mind: pressuring the FCC for a rival Channel 10 applicant...
...Dirty People." Wingate tried to protest that Churchill was belittling the size of the show's audience (estimated 500,000), but Randolph rolled right on: "I wouldn't think of asking you about your sisters. I was warned. They said, 'Don't you trust them. They'll spring something dirty, mean, caddish on you.' I've not been disappointed by what my friends said...
...mount. Jewel's Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel's Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet's fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed out at the wire, Willie lodged a protest. He did not have to. The stewards were already scrutinizing the movies of the race. They decided that Tim Tam had indeed been fouled, set Jewel's Reward back to second place and named Willie's colt the winner...