Word: protestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Alabama's eleven electors, only five are pledged to support Kennedy, but three of the unpledged six may also do so. Mississippi's eight electoral votes, also unpledged, may be given in protest to Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd...
Commenting on his retirement in 1946, as a protest against the "Exclusive regime of parties," De Gaulle wrote these prophetic words as the passed into 12 years of voluntary isolation: "Every Frenchman, whatever his tendencies had the troubling suspicion that with the General vanished something primordial, permanent and necessary which he incarnated in history, and which the regime of parties could not represent. In the sidetracked selected in advance, which could be invoked by common consent as soon as a new laceration threatened the nation...
...Protest & Veto. To succeed O'Donoghue, Judge Letts appointed former FBI Agent Terence F. McShane. 33. Naturally, Hoffa protested. Reason: trim, handsome Terry McShane had investigated Hoffa for the FBI in 1957, twice testified against him in the wiretap case. Fortnight ago. splitting 2 to 1 in favor of Hoffa, the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington bounced McShane, ruled that either the Teamsters or the insurgents could block any appointee for the chairmanship on "reasonable grounds...
...government has not thrown its full weight behind it. Nor is there assurance that businessmen will go along; significantly, Wirtschaftsdienst, the influential organ of industry, recently complained that Germany's own internal expansion requires all the spare cash available. But, although Konrad Adenauer would be able to protest that another election is coming up, it looked as if the Germans might be hooked for at least some contribution. Reporting the impending Dillon-Anderson visit, Hamburg's Die Welt commented gloomily: "The Federal Government is disturbed . . . giving up money seems inevitable...
...Paris last week, 200 cops manned the gates and roofs of the Palais de Justice as Pierre Lagaillarde, cocky right-wing leader of the January insurrection, went on trial with 19 others for insurrection against the state. In Algiers, police cordoned the squares to head off threatened protest riots and hustled a dozen "activists" to exile in France. Like a man seeking room to maneuver, wily General Raoul Salan, the ex-army commander whom De Gaulle forbade to return to Algeria, suddenly took off by train for a "vacation" in Spain, where he proclaimed: "If it should be that Algeria...