Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doubt for Posterity? Last week the British government was belabored by increasingly shrill protests against its bomb tests. Twenty-three women dressed in mourning "for the thousands of people already affected by H-bomb explosions and for the thousands that will be in the future," called at 10 Downing Street to hand a protest to Prime Minister Macmillan, then trudged off to the House of Commons to buttonhole members. In the House of Lords, Laborite peers cited the estimate of Nobel Prize Chemist Linus Pauling of California's Institute of Technology that 1 ,000 people would die of leukemia...
With rare courage and sense of destiny, they agreed. Next day, as banks closed, business came to a standstill and newspapers shut down in protest, tanks and armored cars rolled into the main streets. The business strikers refused to be overawed. Rojas fueled the opposition fire by calling together his puppet Constituent Assembly and ordering it to revoke the long-established sections of the constitution which decreed that a President must be elected by direct popular vote, and that no President may succeed himself...
...Turkish Composer Nevit Kodalli's announcement that he was planning to put Vincent van Gogh on the operatic stage at first brought howls of protest from critics who believed that it was his duty to choose a Turkish theme. But most criticism ended with the first performance in Ankara. The libretto altered Irving Stone's fictionalized Van Gogh biography, Lust for Life, and reduced it to five scenes: London, in front of the house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front...
Along with horror stories on boondoggle items such as "the $300,000 that the Army spends to finance Sunday morning recreation for civilian members of private rifle clubs," the Knight papers have run two-column pep talks urging readers to protest to their Congressmen, helped them out with maps of congressional districts and names of Representatives...
...Pious Protest. "Operation K" was what Communist Party members called the campaign against the church, and they overlooked no detail to make it more effective. Troops were ordered to see special indoctrination films on Sunday mornings to keep them from attending Mass. In many state restaurants and canteens, meat was served regularly on Friday, even if it was unavailable during the rest of the week. Religious processions were drowned out by jazz-blaring loudspeakers. Religious houses were closed (thousands of nuns took jobs to support their communities), and religious education in the schools was all but ended by harassment...