Word: protested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article states: "[Pan Am's] Lisbon base for a time was the only Allied radio outpost on the Continent." As a wartime "rockape" or inhabitant of Gibraltar at Britain's Cable and Wireless station, I would protest that neither the Germans nor the Italians at any period of the war ever prevented Gibraltar from exercising its usefulness as a radio outpost...
...protest was seconded some days later by a letter from his ex-Balkans traveling companion, the New York Times' William H. Lawrence, now stationed in Washington. Lawrence knows the difficulties confronting a working correspondent in the Balkans, having been refused re-entry to Rumania and Bulgaria a year ago. It was he who took the photograph of Low that ran in my March 28th Letter. Its locale, Slobozia, is in Rumania...
...Angeles last week, against a hand-picked U.S. team, they learned that it was to be a championship match-and they let out a roar heard halfway to Buenos Aires. They had left flamboyant, red-headed Roberto, a nine-goal player,* at home. They played the match under protest...
...looked darkest, Pedley dribbled the ball almost beneath his pony's feet and drove it squarely between the uprights for two successive goals, to turn the tide. With less than one minute to play, the U.S. scored the clincher that beat the Argentines, 10-9. But the Argentine protest was allowed; the game didn't count...
Widespread liquor sales to college students under 21 have resulted in a letter of protest to all Western Massachusetts package stores signed jointly by four college presidents. Stressing "the multitude of problems which the unrestricted use of alcoholic beverages brings to every campus," the heads of Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Massachusetts asked for full cooperation in keeping liquor away from minors...