Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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YOUR AUG. 14 ACCOUNT OF MY HANDLING OF THE STORY ABOUT THE ARRIVAL OF FRESH TROOPS IN KOREA IS SO INCOMPLETE AND MISLEADING IT REQUIRES THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE PROTEST...
...routine handling brought a roar of protest from liquor dealers, amazed at the gullibility of Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
...photographer's window a picture of beautiful Miss Edith Huang (daughter of one of China's few big industrialists) displayed side by side with the picture of a movie actress. Wu was not acquainted with Miss Huang, but he gallantly marched into the shop to protest against the photographer's disrespectful act of associating Miss Huang with an actress. Three years later, Miss Huang and her champion were married...
...statue on Unter den Linden, which, since the start of World War II, had been encased in a brick shell to protect it against air raids. Recently, not fully realizing their kinship to the king, the Communists suggested that the statue be melted down for scrap. An outcry of protest from Berliners taught the Communist bosses that they could put Frederick to better...
...Englishman's home used to be his castle," roared outraged Householder William Clarke of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, but the protest was in vain. The local district council, of which he himself was a member, had decided that Clarke's house would make a better village office building. When Clarke refused to budge, the council sent out five burly bailiffs to carry out the condemnation order. Aided by two casual volunteers, the bailiffs picked up Clarke, dragged him down a rose-lined drive and dumped him, in a public road...