Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Almost Bald." Not one of these speakers made an open appeal to Ike to run again. They simply let him know that, as individual men and women, they liked him-so, too, in a different way, did the professional politicians who spoke during untelevised parts of the dinners. They told the President how much his leadership had come to mean...
...week's end, Prime Minister Nehru, defending the necessity for firing into the Bombay crowds, made an emotional appeal to Congress leaders, moving many to tears. Cried Nehru: "Who lives if India dies, and who dies if India lives...
...Roman Catholic faith ... In evaluating church membership, all these must be reckoned with as establishing tradition and thereby influencing the future. All the Pope's men are not to be counted merely within the living apostolate." But so far the church has failed to make sufficient appeal to the middle class, and this has handicapped it unduly in the U.S., despite "less Government opposition and more tax-exempt encouragement" than almost anywhere else...
...figures in their annual popularity contest for women, proclaimed that Eleanor Roosevelt, in the opinion of the U.S. public, is the world's "most admired" living woman-a distinction she has won nine years out of the past ten.* The runners-up, in the order of their public appeal: U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, Helen Keller, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Britain's Princess Margaret (a newcomer to the top ten), India's Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, former Secretary of Health...
...over their performance. And in recent years the golf course has become a kind of office with trees, where businessmen are as intent on arranging ways of raising their incomes as on lowering their scores. Says Norman Livermore Jr., California lumber-firm executive and onetime athlete: '"The great appeal of sports like golf, tennis and skeetshooting is that you can mark down your score on a card and have something to show for your time. But if you feel that way, you don't know too much about relaxation...