Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco's Alternatives. On the face of their appeal to "leading" Spaniards, Washington and London seemed to be hoping (and they might secretly be dickering) for an army coup that would force Franco out, pave the way 1) for an orderly return of republican and monarchist exiles into a broadened caretaker government, and 2) for eventual free elections...
...NLRB ruling stands, against the appeal which coal operators were preparing to make to the courts, the foremen's unions will have reached their goal. U.S. industry can get ready to be organized by the unions "right up to the vice presidents...
Nicodemus ("he was the fellow who went to Christ in the middle of the night and wanted to know the lowdown. . . .") is the latest addition to the pious parade of current religious novels. Its appeal to readers is likely to lie less in its literary virtues than in its theme: the search for a valid religious faith by four despairing New Yorkers. They might be taken, together, as representing the common man. None of them had thought much about religion until World War II. Their contemporary torment is bluntly portrayed by Novelist Walworth with the forcefulness of the common woman...
...appeal would allow veterans to buy textbooks anywhere in Boston, or even in their own home towns, if need be, and still receive a refund under the provisions of the GI Bill. At present official rulings limit the accepted book stores to those in Harvard Square...
...Negro, Heman Marion Sweatt, told newsmen that he just wanted to study law, not appeal...