Word: protest
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Bench of Hungarian Bishops independently of the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 11), in the hope of relieving growing Communist pressure on the church. Said the bishops in a pastoral letter read in Budapest churches last Sunday: "We were deeply afflicted, and nothing was left to us but to protest...
With his beliefs established, he was ready at 34 to begin his life work. In 1517 he nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. The Theses were a protest against the corrupt Roman Catholic practice of the day, of selling "indulgences" to the living for the reduction of the purgatorial terms of the dead...
...hundreds of volunteer contestants who have been hit in the face with custard pies or suffered similar indignities on Truth or Consequences, only one made any active protest. After being pushed into a tankful of water, he managed to pull Edwards, dinner jacket and all, in after him. "He was just being playful," explains Edwards. And, what is really important: "It got a great laugh from the studio audience...
Bandleader-Composer Duke (Don't Get Around Much Any More) Ellington, 51, wired Manhattan's Daily Worker to protest the inclusion of his name in a list of "76 outstanding Negro leaders . . . spokesmen for millions . . . who signed the World Peace Appeal." Huffed the Duke: "I'm no spokesman for millions," and what's more, "I threw the guy out when he asked me to sign...
Long & Short. Out of these techniques have come such shows as Ben Park's Saturday Square, and Hawkins Falls, based on nearby Woodstock, Ill.; Ted Mills's Portrait of America and Crisis; Charlie Andrews' Studs' Place, which drew 4,000 letters of protest (mostly from New York and Philadelphia) when it was dropped last month, and the Ransom Sherman Show, dedicated to the incurable inefficiency of the American male...