Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Property owners muttered darkly. Last week they flocked to the village hall to protest. A contractor pleaded that the all-of-a-kind method was the only economically sound way to build houses these days. Scarsdale wasn't interested. After due deliberation the village board approved a new law designed to make each house-by variation in dimensions or rearrangement of windows and doors-distinguishable from each other...
...sweltering Tampico, where the shrimp boats idled while their crewmen roamed about freely ashore, the U.S. skippers huddled with their lawyers and U.S. consular officials, trying to make up their minds whether to pay the fines under protest or post bail pending an appeal and decision of their cases. The time was ripe for both countries to stop trading such words as "poacher" or "pirate" and settle on a legal definition of territorial limits...
Good Boys. Last week, with their dances and baseball games, operettas and track meets called off, students decided to join their teachers' cause. And so one morning in Brooklyn, 1,000 boys & girls cut classes to parade in protest around the New Utrecht High School. The same day, 400 boys from another Brooklyn school marched across Manhattan Bridge to demonstrate before City Hall. There they met the Mayor's education aide, who was willing to talk to them. "We had a short chat," said he later, "and they returned to school. That shows they are good boys...
...protest such an extravagant and indirect expenditure to attract athletes to the University. If the money must be spent on athletics, let it be used to endow the HAA and take the burden of the annual deficit off the Faculty. Spend it on a hockey rink or resumption of the training table...
...this trend continued, the radio audience began complaining to the station about the number and repetition of advertisements. Many listeners went so far as to call up the stores sponsoring the commercials to protest interruptions, and in some cases irate music-lovers boycotted the offending advertisers. Naturally this led to the cancellation of advertising contracts and hindered the signing of new ones. Furthermore, by this fall the station's Hooper rating fell so low that it isn't even figured any more...