Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vague Appeal. In Liberia, British West Africa, the Belgian Congo, the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias, Dean Pope conferred with 125 native leaders, as well as missionaries and government officials. "As a whole," he said, "the African leaders are as embittered, confused and without hope as any group of men on earth...Grievances vary, but there is almost universal bitterness against white men-a small minority in every country who have arrogated to themselves all the most important political prerogatives, economic resources and cultural opportunities." The leaders have little contact with one another and Communism as a movement...
Over the Top. The trouble is: sex appeal has a way of being repealed by the passing years. Joan Crawford, for instance, who is reportedly 41, has a gem-hard glamour that has worn pretty well for 20 years; now her line is a sophisticated fortyishness, and the public is not clamoring to buy.* Nor is the well-preserved charm of Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Marlene Dietrich causing the box-office stampedes that it could set off ten, or even five years...
Last week the union's executive board accused him of bringing his beloved Woodworkers "into discredit," fired him despite an appeal from his $1,700-a-year job, said he could hold no union job for ten months. Kennedy said he had kept his hand in at carpentering, but feared no one would hire him; he had a brother and a widowed mother to support. Said he truculently: "I am convinced that my dismissal is part of the campaign against the Communists...
...first advertisement in 1919, in his own New Appeal, Haldeman-Julius got 5,000 replies. When he took a $150 flyer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he got back $1,000 in orders. Later, misplacing the copy for another ad, he dashed off an eye-catching substitute: WOULD YOU SPEND $2.98 FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION? Thousands of customers answered...
Last week a federal statutory court in New York shaved their borrowed time a little more closely. The court told the three companies that they could make and distribute pictures or exhibit them, but not both at the same time. Even so, an appeal to the Supreme Court might still stave off the final divorce decree for as long as four years...