Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Find more programs "to appeal to the child's sense of humor...
Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, rivaled in popularity only by Lili Marlene, which had more homesick appeal, but less oompah...
...Patriots. The Cairo Declaration, to which the U.S., Britain, China and Russia have subscribed, pledges a "free and independent . . . Korea . . . in due course." Koreans fear that "due course" means a period of international tutelage. They appeal to their history as proof of their right to administer their own affairs...
Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, issued a hurry-up appeal to the world to unite for self-protection against the atomic bomb. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, he observed that "brotherhood ... has suddenly become a condition of survival," guessed that if the late Wendell Willkie were titling his best-seller today he would make it: One World or NONE...
...Fishgold's own union, the C.I.O.'s Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America, promptly protested that Congress had meant no such thing, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If this version of super-seniority is carried out, the Union predicted, employes in many a shipyard and U.S. plant, including World War I veterans, will have to be fired to make way for veterans. Example: the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pa. has 19,000 former employes in service. Yet cutbacks have shrunk its payroll down to only 7,000 workers, some with...