Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wingers got to work on a program which they thought would remedy the party's bad defeat last May (when it ran a poor third at the polls). Items: a more vigorous fight for nationalization; tougher demands for lower prices and higher wages; a new propaganda designed to appeal to women and young voters; an immediate end to the heresy of collaboration with the bourgeoisie, to be replaced by collaboration (though not fusion) with the Communists...
Abraham Lincoln's admonition . . . can properly be applied only against those who have lost an election and then attempt to reverse the decision by an appeal to force. That was not the case with the Athens veterans. ... It was the machine, not the veterans, who made the appeal to force. It was the veterans who were the forces of law and order. ... I think you owe it to the veterans to say so, and to quote the rest of Lincoln's fine statement with that point in mind. He said...
...them [our people] to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal, except to ballots themselves, at succeeding elections. Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by a war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners...
...World Council of Churches had no reply from the Vatican. But the appeal from 70 Protestant leaders of eight nations that Christendom unite to insure a Christian peace (TIME, Aug. 12) had stirred a deep response in many a Christian quarter. Last week two U.S. publications, one Protestant, the other Roman Catholic, expressed with equal anxiety the hope that Christian hands could be joined...
...Author Kavan's mad characters asks, "to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope to prove one's innocence when there is no means of knowing of what one has been accused? No, there's no justice for people like us in the world: all that we can do is to suffer as bravely as possible and put our oppressors to shame...