Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks earlier another transport, the Gladen, had been lost in much the same way. Swedish airline officials suspended service to England, planned to ask for guarantees of safe conduct. The Government was expected to issue an official protest. But the Stockholm newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda urged the only technique that has ever been known to work with Nazis: get tough and halt the flying of German courier planes over Swedish territory...
...Beginning. Leasing the Azores did not yet mean war for Portugal. The day of the announcement that Allied ships had sailed in, Germany's Minister Baron Oswald von Hoyningen-Huene talked with Salazar for an hour, came out smiling. Berlin's reaction was formal: a protest, vague threats of retribution, nothing more. Portugal was a neutral no longer; she was a participant...
...friend, companion and teacher to Louis XVI's sister and lived at court at Versailles, where she knew the great personages of the period. After the Revolution her realistic waxwork was in great demand. She modeled many of the Terrorists from life, sometimes willingly, sometimes under protest. Once she was forced to reproduce the freshly guillotined head of a Royalist. A Royalist at heart, she watched for a chance to leave France...
...politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted to ask you how they were...
...would like to protest against Mr. Winston Churchill's terrible term "triphibious," as applied to Lord Louis Mountbatten. . . . Amphibious, derived from the Greek words double and life, means adapted to both elements of life, i.e., land and water; hence the correct neologism would be (in the case of Lord Louis, able to fight on land, water and air) tribious...