Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protest against submitting women to the indignities of the jury room. . . . You have no idea of what goes on behind those closed doors. Why, some men remove their coats and vests and even their shirts...
...Nobel Prize. As a Senator Yeats shunned the politterateurs for the men of practical affairs. He was proud of two bullet holes in his window which were a by-product of civil war; he turned an argument over divorce laws into the speech of hi. life, a "passionate protest ... on behalf of that small Protestant band which had so often proved itself the chivalry of Ireland." He was beginning to write, meanwhile, those "endeavors in cold passion" (the "Tower" period) which Hone compares with the third period of Beethoven...
...Weimar Republic fell. In the Nazi-packed Reichstag, on March 23, 1933, Hitler called for the Enabling Act, which emasculated the German Constitution, took the ground from under the feet of opposition parties. Tall, husky, greying Otto Wels, president of the Social Democratic Party, strode to the dais to protest the bill. "We are defenseless, but not without honor!" he cried. "If you really wanted social reconstruction, you would need no such bill as this!" Hitler spoke next: "You're too late! We don't need you any longer!" The bill was passed...
...January 1918, when a German-sponsored separatist movement proclaimed the autonomy of the Flemish provinces, the Belgian High Court ordered the immediate arrest of the political leaders concerned. The Germans freed their protégés, sent the magistrates to jail. In protest, the entire judiciary struck...
...town's suburbs in a Greater Antwerp. The Germans had asked for a deferment; when the request was ignored, the judges were arrested. Belgium's judiciary, as it had done 25 years ago,* used the only weapon it had, walked out of the courts in protest...