Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North Africa was the eye opener. To the spot went OFRRO's able, balding Food Expert Herbert Parisius, 48, who quit the Agriculture Department last January in protest against its do-nothing policies. He found North Africa stripped of food by the Nazis. But the wheat crop was growing high in the sun-baked fields...
Nobody rose to protest...
Four hundred Mexican students gathered before the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City one day last week, tossed up insults at Pan-American-minded Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla. Reason: he had failed (they claimed) to protest firmly enough against the attacks by U.S. sailors on Los Angeles zoot suiters of Mexican blood (TIME, June...
...first anti-U.S. demonstration in Mexico since 1940 (when disgruntled Almazanistas stoned the U.S. Embassy building where Vice President Henry A. Wallace was dining). Mexican newspapers carried full accounts of the incident, considered it a protest against U.S. racial discrimination against Mexicans. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the Confederation of Latin American Workers, saw it as part of "gigantic Nazi maneuvers" in the Western Hemisphere...
...Though 775,000 babies were born last year, only 300,000 prams (baby carriages) were made. Here British parents won their first victory: after a wave of protest, Board of Trade President Hugh Dalton agreed to permit 325,000 prams to be manufactured this year...