Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving rise to the old wolf cry of "Wall Street") instead of under the politically tested system of federal-state matching funds, with the federal share coming from regular appropriations. The program would have been placed outside the annual appropriations control of Congress, a surrender of power unlikely to appeal to Congressmen. Also, at George Humphrey's insistence, the road-building costs would not have been figured in the national debt. ("The end of honest bookkeeping," snapped Byrd...
...Executive. He thinks it is presumptuous for anyone to insist that he is the man who can. A very liberal friend of mine, experienced in politics on the national level, no longer thinks Stevenson would be the strongest candidate. This friend is convinced that Sen. Symington has more vote appeal than anyone else. Sen. Kefauver still has a following. But he is anathema to the bosses and probably could not be nominated. I hear Sen. Lyndon Johnson has Presidential ambitions. And there are others...
Newly elected Prime Minister Eden, already preoccupied with a dock strike that has disrupted six major seaports, went on the air from the prime-ministerial country place, Chequers, to appeal to the strikers. "The country is going to be hurt," said he, and there will be "unemployment on a rapidly increasing scale." Put on notice by the striking union's advance warning, Eden's Cabinet was ready with emergency plans for distributing essential food and medical supplies. The government, said Eden sternly, "will do all it can to protect the nation...
...spread to a score of campuses, is now a permanent part of the academic scene. Its purpose, says Los Angeles' Adaline ("Gramma") Guenther, who founded the first group, is not so much to- preach as to inspire. "We merely offer something for the audience to think about. We appeal to their conscience. We say in effect, 'This is a good world, but you must make...
...versions achieved without it. The idyl of a young girl of the Paris slums and a sort of young king of the sewers-who comes home blind, at the end, after World War I-leaves the audience not only dry-eyed but pretty heavy-lidded. It even lacks the appeal of something sweetly out of date. The reason, perhaps, - is that the lovers are no longer the real story, but merely the required treacle in a seamy-side-of-Paris musical. The rest of Seventh Heaven is almost all tabasco - streets of Paris and streetwalkers and street dances, apaches...