Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plucky Poet. The story of Tsumakichi has the universal appeal of plain grit. During one night of horror in her 17th year, Tsumakichi woke to find a human head rolling past her on the teahouse veranda, saw a samurai sword flash twice toward her own body, leaving her armless. Her berserk adoptive father, the manager of the teahouse, had lopped off the heads of five of the six people sleeping under his roof that night. Primarily a dancer, she painfully mastered a new art. Holding a paintbrush between her teeth, she learned to paint ideograms and to draw designs...
Although Estes Kefauver's appeal is not limited to the farm country, it is there that he has proven his credentials: in 1952 and 1956 he entered a total of ten Midwestern presidential primaries, came out of them undefeated, and, in Minnesota last March, very nearly closed the barn door on Adlai Stevenson. It is his appeal to farmers that best explains Kefauver's vote-pulling powers wherever they exist. Many another Democratic politician can point to a farm record as staunch and steady as Kefauver's; Kefauver himself is almost inarticulate in expressing his policies. When...
...exploit Kefauver's appeal, he is being given equal, if hyphenated, billing on Stevenson-Kefauver campaign posters, and party strategists plan to let him have more campaign money than any previous vice-presidential candidate. It should be money well spent. Said a correspondent traveling with Kefauver: "He's the single strongest asset Stevenson...
...averse to any interruption of West Germany's $450 million trade with the Middle East, stood opposed to forceful action yet reported gloomily that the British and French seemed in dead earnest about closing in on Nasser. Italy sent Ambassador Giovanni Fornari flying to Cairo with an urgent appeal to Nasser to soften his stand, sweetened it with a hint of big Italian construction help (FIAT) on the Aswan...
There were weightier considerations, however, and eventually they won out. Wagner, immensely gregarious, has wide appeal in polyglot New York (a Catholic of German-Irish extraction, he married a Quaker girl, Susan Edwards, in 1942). If, as the Democrats' only proved vote-getter, he turned down the party now-when its need is so great-he would run the risk that its affronted leaders would deny him the nomination in 1958. On the other hand, if he lost this year, he could return to his mayor's job and still be assured another try at the Senate. With...