Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin delegates, feeling the muscle of their 20 conference votes, unanimously demanded complete freedom from any-check or supervision by the Security Council. Senators Connally and Vandenberg, well aware of the Monroe Doctrine's sacrosanct appeal to the Senate, felt that some concession to the turbulent Latins was necessary if the charter was to be ratified...
Arturo Toscanini, rejecting a "loving appeal" for his return to Milan and its La Scala Opera, broadcast an unminced reply: "I shall be happy to return among you as a citizen of a free Italy, but not as a subject of the degenerate king and the princes of the House of Savoy. ... All the vestiges of a past of ignominy and treachery must disappear...
...world legislature. Every member of the organization is to be automatically a member of the Assembly, free to "discuss any questions relating to the maintenance of international peace and security" and to make recommendations on such matters as disarmament. But if the Assembly wants action taken, it must appeal to the Security Council...
This astute management of the finances of a once shaky railroad did not appeal to dividend-hungry stockholders like Florida's Claughton. As spokesman for a stockholders' protective committee claiming 40% control of Katy common stock, Claughton cried, "If the Katy can't pay dividends when it is earning good money, then what can stockholders expect after...
...back to mental security. One is a psychoneurotic soldier on his own for two weeks--the other an inmate of a women's prison, freed for a Christmas "furlough." The field for honest psychological exploration in large and inviting, but the movie takes instead the high road to popular appeal...