Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule, and resist the same fight we are going through at the present time . . . Yankee rule, carpetbagging." Then, dropping the toga of statesmanship that he has recently stitched up for use in Washington (TIME, Oct. 15), Herman added: "The time has come when the people of the South must appeal from those damnable decisions of the Supreme Court to the court of last resort, the decent white people of America...
...Scandinavian countries, another to look into the U.S. building industry. He realizes that farm collectivization has failed, but does not know what to substitute. He promised the Roman Catholic Church that he would permit religious education in the schools in return for the recently freed Cardinal Wyszinski's appeal to his followers to keep the peace...
...Harvard Fund, which conducts a continual appeal for unrestricted funds, will sharply curtail its requests after August 31, 1957, he said, so that most available resources will be channeled into the Program. The Fund will resume regular solicitation after July 1, 1958, while the Program enters its final "mopping-up" stages...
Each class has its own separate Fund appeal, with the money collected by class agents appointed through the Fund Council...
Dancer Bolger is a mobile piece of American folklore. Boston-born, warm and witty, he has a sort of Ichabod Crane appeal-he is trampled on but triumphant. At 52 he is still as nimble as he was back in 1936 when Broadway gave him stardom, for his part in George Balanchine's difficult Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet, in On Your Toes. Eventually he emerged as a character comic who could also deliver a wistful lyric. By Where's Charley?, he was translating most of life into impish leaps and droll gesture. "In show business," says Bolger...