Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church is facing a local group's court appeal of its permit to build a 57-foot church with a 90-foot steeple at 145 Brattle St. The permit was obtained in spite of a general zoning law restricting the height of buildings in the area to 35 feet, presumably as an exception in a "hardship" case...
Though right-wingers make the most clamor for De Gaulle, it is significant that his appeal has always cut across party lines (except among the Communists). When France's allies consider what direction France might now take, they would prefer most the continued existence of the present regime, if roused by the common peril it resolved its differences. Otherwise London and Washington would prefer a De Gaulle who took power constitutionally* to 1) a popular front in which the Communists took part or 2) a military rule responding to mob appeal...
...France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940, Jacques Massu, still a lieutenant commanding a fort in the Sahara scribbled a "rude French word'' in his diary and beneath it the pledge: "Nous vainerons" (We shall win). Hearing De Gaulle's radio appeal from London, Massu joined the Free French in Africa, was nicked in the calf by an Italian bullet in a desert battle, calmly cauterized the wound himself with a cigarette, fought on across North Africa and into France and Germany as a lieutenant colonel with General Le-clerc's famed 2nd Armored Division...
...book Author Frank proved himself a competent amateur head-shrinker. But in the movie the psychologizing is vulgarly done, and every possible appeal is made to the sort of customer who likes to rub his nose in other people's business. Those who do not can only sadly agree with Diana, who at one point remarks that there is no sense in telling her story. "Living it was bad enough...
...President also pointed to the 144 Harvard Clubs throughout the world in an appeal that leaders in all fields assume greater responsibility to maintain the national and international stature of the University...