Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just think it's a damn good long vaudeville skit." Frederick Packard (Harvard): "I don't think it's a great play. Maybe it's not even a play. But it's very good theatre. . . .It certainly is not Pollyanna-ish; and I suspect that the play's appeal to people twenty-five years old or under is due to the fact that youth has a tendency to prefer the disagreeable." Marston Balch (Tufts) said that "the play is clearly allegorical: Godot is one's goal, and everyone has his own individual Godot...
...Announced, in reply to an urgent appeal by United Nations' Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, that the U.S. will lend the U.N. up to $5,000,000 to help meet the initial costs ($7,000,000 to $10,000,000) of Suez Canal clearance, with repayment "terms and arrangements" to be worked out later. Canada, Australia and six West European nations are expected to advance the rest. Still to come: agreement on a permanent plan to finance the total ($40 million) salvage...
Though Providence newspapers were swamped with protests against Roberts' election, Loser Del Sesto decided not to appeal the decision on the ground that Roberts' plea came too late. Instead, he warned that continued agitation might affect the operation and finances of state government. But he promised to run again for governor in 1958. Banking on that promise, a committee launched a "Win in 1958" fund, and campaign committees were formed two years ahead of time by citizens who agreed with Del Sesto's postdecision comment: "Democracy received another setback in Rhode Island today...
...last being in one building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings only to the Pentagon across the Potomac), the State Department settled for another massive, untrimmed behemoth with about as much esthetic appeal as a concrete bunker...
...which, in turn, became a great national agency, with accounts such as Life Savers, J. W. Dant, and Phillips Petroleum. Now there was no stopping Listerine. Lambert developed a formula for Listerine tooth paste, turning out a batch himself with a hand press. "Early I reasoned that a new appeal for the same product would be like plowing virgin territory. We started advertising Listerine for sore throat and for dandruff. Then we used the appeal of after shaving...