Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protests were raised over Polish plans to expel the entire German population of the "recovered territories"-between 4,800,000 and 5,800,000 Germans were ultimately driven out of the area, mostly to West Germany-Labor Party Leader Clement Attlee declared that the Germans "are not entitled to appeal on the basis of moral laws that they have disregarded...
...discussion of a peace treaty means discussing the Eastern frontier question," i.e., risking endorsement of the present Oder-Neisse border with Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...
...chance to own gold bars holds an appeal for both ultracautious and speculative buyers. Investors willing to pay cash, forgo dividends and interest, and accept the hazard of a gradual decline in the buying power of their money, can get high safety and liquidity. Speculators can buy a 1-kilo bar for as little as $34 margin plus $63 a year on the unpaid balance, stand to turn a handsome profit if the price of gold should rise. In effect, they bet that the U.S. Treasury, which has been able to corner more than half of the free world...
...Jazz Age names, that are vibrantly nostalgic, as it has others, such as Halliday's white-knuckled attempt to summarize a scenario that has never been written, that are tensely moving. Elsewhere, at times, the main story is wordy and under-dramatized. Despite Rosemary Harris' period appeal as the wife, the flashbacks seem inadequate, do more to catch a half-legendary Jazz Age mood than to explain a disintegrating writer. What destroyed any such writer must go beyond mere high-stepping idiocies to the full lure of wealth and high life that he succumbed to, and it must...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Hardly anyone could resist the ribald appeal of Holly Golightly, one of fiction's most endearing bad little good girls...