Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, to protest. What vexed him: the British Army has been instructing recruits in prophylaxis against venereal disease. The British Government, extending the campaign, has a regulation, the famed 33-B, calling for treatment of all persons infected with such diseases...
...rights of the small nations and at the same time recognizing Russia's demand for security. Mindful of the economic and militaristic advantage to be gained from those areas taken in 1939, Russia may be expected to insist on retaining them. On the other hand, the small states legitimately protest against such a violation of their sovereignty...
Around Captain Eddie Rickenbacker swirled a storm of protest for his stern denunciations of absenteeism in war plants and general U.S. flabbiness. Union leaders howled bitter reproaches, called him misinformed, reactionary. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced that the World War I ace spoke "as an individual and not as an Army officer." The sober Republican New York Herald Tribune allowed: "It does seem true that the World War ace lacks information on some of the obstacles to the all-out production effort he insists upon...
Compared with Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, formerly a tennis-playing English teacher at the University of Texas, now in the Army Air Forces, writes like a spoiled darling. But, though Jarrell has suffered neither social nor economic disabilities, he makes a moving protest against the world of his time. Some of the lyrics in Blood for a Stranger register the pain of human guilt as it has seldom been registered in American poetry. He writes...
...Governor Leon C. Phillips of dry Oklahoma finally entered a protest to General Marshall against the earmarking practice. He was not quite on solid ground. But General Marshall did decide that the open bar must go. By his order, he deprived prohibitionists of ammunition and still left unblighted the camaraderie of officers' clubs. All bar sales were halted, but the practice of earmarking was unaffected...