Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower Administration, alert to the appeal of the Reed move and fearful over the outcome, offered a compromise...
Early this year the trustees gave up, closed down again, prepared to sell the property for demolition. But the workers staged a sit-in strike, demanding that the government take over the plant and save their jobs. Since 70% of them are Communists, they directed their appeal principally to the Communist Party. Last week none other than Mayor la Pira drove up to the old building, formally requisitioned the foundry for the city of Florence, handed the workers checks totaling $1,600 and told them to keep working. The workers thereupon chose a 26-year-old Communist among them...
...good faith which many Socialists know to be irresponsible. But to the motley coalition of pacifists, patriots, militant trade unionists, left-wing Protestant pastors, wishful thinkers, Marxist intellectuals and East zone refugees who make up the SPD, the oversimplified cry of Einheit Deutschlands (German unity) has a ringing appeal. The Socialists' late leader, Kurt Schumacher, an embittered hulk after the Nazis endlessly roughed him up in concentration camps, left behind a sour political testament: "Never again must the Socialists be caught being less nationalistic than their opponents." That advice is being meticulously followed by the bewildered and small...
...After medical societies and health officials protested, Maryland state legislators turned down an appeal for legal recognition as physicians from the state's 100-odd naturopaths (who treat diseases by "manipulation, diathermy, and exploitation of the body's natural curing powers...
Terry accepted, Anderson points out, knowing that there was a question of his athletic eligibility, but feeling he was innocent of any wrong doing. "He felt sure that any fair court of appeal would give him a clean bill of health...