Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree with Abe Lincoln, whom you quote in this article, that "among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. . . ." But desperate circumstance sometimes requires desperate remedy. All that the G.I.s of Athens, Tenn. wanted was a fair count of their votes. And, more power to them, that is what they...
...condemned were spared on account of youth. The other six, having ample resources, appealed again & again. Four times they narrowly missed the gibbet. Last month they lost another, apparently final appeal to London's Privy Council...
...armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet Communism, with its racial equality and promise of economic gain, seems to have for masses of people throughout the world...
...Memphis last week, the Scripps-Howard Commercial Appeal had a delicate subject to discuss. No one could have put it more politely...
Last week New York City Republicans got a boom going for a somebody: Major General William J. Donovan. Manhattan Lawyer Donovan (onetime Assistant U.S. Attorney General) had unusual assets for vote appeal: a nickname ("Wild Bill," from his football days at Columbia University) ; fame as a World War I hero (the Congressional Medal of Honor) and distinction in World War II as head of the cloak-and-dagger Office of Strategic Services...