Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Knowland & Co. came the expected yelp of protest. Blared Knowland's sidekick, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges: "A great mistake." Since the funds have already been appropriated, however, there seemed nothing they could do to stop the shipments. Then, at week's end, came a new obstacle to resumed U.S. military assistance. Huffed Belgrade, apparently with one eye on Moscow: it would need time to "reconsider" the question of U.S. heavy-weapons deliveries. The "reconsideration." the State Department believed. would not take long...
...considerably muffled in the terse announcement by the Ministry of Supply, which said little more than that "the first explosion of a nuclear device in the present series took place yesterday in the Central Pacific at a high altitude." But there was still a shock wave of protest in its wake...
...London's House of Commons the Laborite Opposition did its best to protest what it could not prevent. "Does the Prime Minister feel," asked one Labor M.P. in chilling irony, "that when, like the Russians, we have had our tests, we shall, again like the Russians, be in a position to assume the moral leadership of the world and propose that they be the last tests?" Prime Minister Macmillan was not to be jostled. "I am bound to say," he answered with a straight face, "that in discussing the matter of nuclear disarmament, we shall...
...have breached the ivy-covered walls at last," said Edward Sullivan, president of the AFL local, who expressed confidence that the protest would be upheld. The union has attempted to organize H.U.E.R.A. members several times during the past five years...
...different child to bring a crucifix from home each day, or else drew crosses on the walls. Even some party functionaries sought out remote churches to attend Mass and held clandestine church weddings late at night, the bride bringing her veil in a briefcase. Piety became a form of protest. Swedes began noticing that the Polish sailors visiting their ports did not swear the way they used to. Well, said the sailors, they'd rather be good than Communist...