Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back-Room Planning. Rockefeller men freely concede that the odds against him are imposing, for Nixon's popularity has soared since his trip to Russia.* If Nixon maintains his appeal, Rockefeller, who worked amicably with the Vice President as an Eisenhower appointee, plans to bow gracefully aside...
...publicity's unwelcome glare. But shrewd Antoine Pinay knew his compatriots too well to rely on shame alone: under new Finance Ministry regulations, police mounted guard over the homes of the four artless dodgers, prevented them from going to work, and withdrew their drivers' licenses. "They can appeal," said a Finance Ministry spokesman. "But we are refusing all settlement out of court. And they are all liable to at least six months in prison, plus fine, plus back taxes...
...lease to a nonwhite, and finally, make a convincing demonstration of his agricultural know-how to an "area control board" dominated by European settlers. The one limitation on the area control boards: any African or Asian who suspected that his application had been refused on racial grounds could appeal to a central control board made up of Asians, Africans and Europeans in equal number...
...final touch, the Agency has even taught its vendors how to appeal to their Harvard customers. "Get your icecold hotdog here," one was heard to wail, offering a tolerably warm specimen. Then plaintively, "Please, somebody buy this hotdog." And people do. Each sale earns three cents for the hawker, and a penny saved is $50,000 a year...
When the Church reached a compromise with local residents, however, Counihan agreed not to undertake the lengthy appeal proceedings...