Word: appealable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech, Nixon abandoned the politics of conciliation, raising his voice to deliver a powerful, simplistic appeal, a personal plea to "the great silent majority" to back his Viet Nam policies and give him more time to carry out his chosen course. Three Presidents before him, said Nixon, had recognized the stakes in Viet Nam, and he did not intend to preside over a U.S. defeat. What he had done, he explained, was to begin "a pursuit for peace on many fronts"-including private proposals for a settlement that he initiated even before taking office, and a personal letter sent...
Andreas' son Democritas, whose short hair and well-pressed neatness would certainly appeal to Agnew, has been deeply affected by his cousin's fame. "Now he has a name." says his father, "a dream to live up to." Democritas is a high school senior and has ambitions to be an accountant. He hopes to win the $1,000 scholarship that Agnew established in his grandfather's memory for the youth of Gargaliani...
Election Fears. Founded originally in 1885, the party led the crusade to cast off British rule. Congress thrived under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. But in recent years, the party has lost much of its broad appeal, and other parties have sprung up to challenge it. In the 1967 elections, the Congress Party lost heavily. In Parliament, its once massive majority fell to a bare 24 seats. Fearful that her party would suffer further losses in the 1972 elections, Mrs. Gandhi began trying to attract more voters by nationalizing the banks and promising to accelerate India...
Judge Charles I. Taylor of the Roxbury Municipal Court sentenced Mann, Henry A. Olson. Philip C. Nies, and James Reeves to three months each in the Deer Island House of Correction. William P. Homans, Jr. '41, counsel for the four will appeal the decision in Suffolk County Superior Court...
...counterpart of minority representation is, however, often a Cambridge City Council which cannot muster a cohesive majority. Though PR candidates run at-large, the system places a premium on "number ones." To get them, candidates most often appeal to a small group. Once on the council, they are often more interested in divvying up the current pie of City services among their voters than in planning much expansion of said services...