Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...than 700 civilians had already fallen before the guns of the R.O.K. troops. Others said the total was at least 800. Last week in Seoul, while U.S. and British troops voiced their loathing of the wholesale slaughter, three American clergymen-a Methodist and two Roman Catholics-made a formal protest...
...Michigan, 60 Methodist ministers dispatched a message to President Truman and Secretary of Defense Marshall: "Its previous use not having prevented the present crisis . . . and in consideration of the fact that the A-bomb is the extreme expression of violence completely contrary to Christian ethics, we ... register our protest against either the use or the threat of the use of the A-bomb...
...Gladwyn Jebb listened with the urbane equanimity a Foreign Office man must pull on along with his drawers and socks while dressing each morning. Secretary General Trygve Lie, a ponderous, uncomfortable figure in blue, his hand plunged deep inside his coat, seemed a Falstaff, cast, under protest, as Napoleon. Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler, presiding, wore a sleepy, slit-eyed look of boredom. Nationalist China's T. F. Tsiang sat with the uninterested look of one who had known all along what was coming, and finally appeared to be dozing. All except Tsiang had held such high hopes...
...understand why Mr. Hinerfeld, one of the signors of the protest, objects now to the use of the word "purge." True, there was no "purge." But Mr. Hinerfeld was especially assigned by the President of the Council to review the article before publication...
Harvard's watchdog is the alumni elected Board of Overseers. Overseer visiting committees are the only outside groups that regularly inspect all sections of the University. Whenever a serious protest arise, over the de-emphasis of Geography for example, it is the Board of Overseers that investigation...