Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liaison officer rushed a copy of the occupation statute to the deadlocked constitutional assembly at Bonn, with an urgent appeal from the Western Foreign Ministers to accept it and get cracking with their draft of a German constitution...
...court seemed little impressed with such rebuttals. Copping and Reynolds had "exercised a baleful, destroying influence on the white souls of the children," it ruled. Then it ordered all students "removed to a place of safety," in effect, closing Horsley Hall. Said Copping, who promised to appeal the decision: "You'll hear from us again...
Alarmed, the Florida State Pharmaceutical Association called emergency meetings to push an appeal for a rehearing on the decision. Cried Secretary-Manager R. Q. Richards: "If this decision stands, I predict that within three years at least 300 businesses, most of them small units, will go broke." Said jubilant Doc Webb: "For the man in the street, it is the people's victory against price-fixing...
General Charles de Gaulle last week made a ringing appeal for mercy for men branded as traitors and enemies of France. "It is absurd," De Gaulle told newsmen, "that so many young men should still rot in prisons and concentration camps." He talked of a general amnesty for many of the 50,000 political prisoners still serving out their prison sentences...
...share its atomic secrets with the U.S.S.R. Then, reasons the professor, war would prove annihilating for both sides. Carr has begun to pass information along to Communist agents when a U.S. Naval Intelligence squad catches him redhanded. Instead of arresting him as a traitor, they successfully appeal to him as a patriot. He helps them, at the cost of his life, to land a key Soviet...