Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This latter amendment was challenged as out of order, but vice-president Eugene H. Zagat, Jr. '61, presiding at this point, ruled it legitimate. His ruling was appealed, the appeal was withdrawn, and another appeal was made...
...Free Wales" on the air at least three times a week for the past month. Dodging from house to house, from town to town, the broadcasters have spread their illicit message through South Wales. Unlike the Scottish nationalist movement, which is more intellectual and romantic, the Welsh nationalists appeal to 2,500,000 cohesive people with an intense pride in their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin and Aneurin. Welsh is one of the oldest of all living languages in Europe. Welsh nationalism may be no great threat to the government...
Points of View is no potboiler. There are five essays on subjects not precisely calculated to appeal to the old master's usual fans. He writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits...
...People May Appeal...
...question period which followed the speech, his sincerity was frequently more persuasive than his arguments, and once or twice he drew scattered hissing. Speaking about recent Cuban trials, he said that not only the criminals but the people, too, could appeal for justice, and he called attention to the relative moderation of the Cuban revolutionaries...