Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Assistant Secretary of War for Air joined, after a moderate protest, in a Truman Administration decision July 8, 1947 not to go ahead developing the Atlas ICBM project...
These three men had set in train the circumstances they now uncertainly faced. It was Lagaillarde who persuaded the other two to "direct action" to protest De Gaulle's removal of Paratrooper General Jacques Massu (TIME, Feb. 1). Once, as they sat in the cafe plotting, he turned on Ortiz, pulled his pistol, and barked at the older man: "I should drop you right now, with this!" After the bloody Jan. 24 fight with the gendarmes (19 dead, 146 wounded), it was Lagaillarde who ordered up the barricades and dug the first shovelful of dirt...
...cities throughout Indonesia, housewives defied a police ban on demonstrations to march on government offices; in Djakarta, students and trade-union deputations presented petitions of protest. Reason: within seven days, the price of rice had doubled and the cost of cooking fuel had shot up 61% as Indonesia's rupiah plunged unchecked. In less than two months the rupiah (officially 45 to the dollar) had fallen from 150 to a record low of 500. Adding twirls to the inflationary spiral were the 2,500,000 Overseas Chinese who have been banned since Jan. 1 from doing business in rural...
...Pounds of Iron. In February 1928 Betancourt and his friends organized a week of student protest. An intense, curly-haired young man in black beret and spectacles, Betancourt delivered an impassioned anti-Gómez speech in a movie theater. Four days later he was thrown into a Gómez dungeon, clamped in 96 pounds of leg irons...
...union. Baldomero Alvarez Rios, is a Communist. The Stolen Government Property Ministry thereupon seized Zayas' house and newspaper. Havana's other leading opposition newspaper Diario de la Marina, struggled on against "clarification"-sometimes running a story, followed by a compulsory "clarification," followed by an angry editorial protest to the "clarification," followed by a second "clarification...