Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message of support. To most of the 4,000 Africans who listened to the vivid harangues, much of the Marxist language probably made little sense when translated into Zulu or Sotho. But to the small group of Negro intellectuals, a "Freedom Charter," introduced at the meeting, did have an appeal. With the literates among them leading, Africans, Indians and colored folk alike cheered charter phrases such as "ownership of the people" with the cry: "Mayibuye, Afrika" (Africa, come back). The only thing they seemed sure of was that the charter was antigovernment...
NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINES, biggest nonscheduled air carrier in the U.S., had its wings clipped. The Civil Aeronautics Board upheld an examiner's finding that North American runs scheduled flights in violation of CAB regulations (TIME, Feb. 28), ordered the line grounded effective Sept. 1. North American will appeal the CAB ruling to the federal courts, keep flying until the case is finally settled...
...also spawned a dozen guttery imitators, e.g., Hush Hush, The Lowdown, Exposed, Uncensored, On the Q.T. In Hollywood Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart reports that "everybody reads it, but they say the cook brought it into the house." In Chicago a society matron summed up the simultaneous appall and appeal that she feels for the magazine: "I've read it from cover to cover, and I think it ought to be thrown out of the house...
...like all Communist peace proposals, this one was a thicket of tricks. The Communists had timed their offer to Malaya's first general elections next month, to appeal to weariness of a war which has cost nearly 10,000 lives. But the British were determined not to allow the Communists a jungle Panmunjom which would give them recognition and time to recover their strength...
...ready, and may never be, for a world government. It does need multilateral diplomacy. The mere existence of the U.N. sometimes makes a settlement possible because nations that will not yield an inch before their next-door neighbor will beat a retreat more gracefully in response to an appeal from the U.N. It gives the Communists a soapbox, but it also provides small nations with a useful forum for world debate; at its best, it gives everyone a court of appeal before the bar of world opinion...