Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 200 Harvard students and nearly that many more non-college spectators crowded into Langdell Hall yesterday to watch one chapter of Dr. Miriam Van Waters' appeal for reinstatement as head of the State Reformatory for Women...
...citizen and social psychologist I have exercised my right to petition, meet, speak, and join with organizations having legitimate aims I support; and I have been undistracted by their being called "Communist fronts" by those who oppose . . . such organizations as Consumer's Union, Spanish Refugee Appeal, and the Progressive Party. Hardly a "penalty for secrecy...
...Budapest's state penitentiary last week, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty waited for action on his appeal against the court's sentence of life imprisonment. The ruling would be made by the National Council of People's Courts, Hungary's highest tribunal. Hungarian officials said that, whatever Mindszenty's final sentence, he would serve it in one of the country's "foremost penal institutions...
...half of Japan's farms were tenant-operated and owner-dominated. Now the tenant figure is only 13%. The land has been split up: with a few careful exceptions, nobody can own more than six acres or rent out more than three. Land reform halted Communism's appeal to Japanese farmers. As landowners they feel that they are small, separate, independent entrepreneurs. They dislike the mere thought of Russian collectives, which many of them saw as Soviet prisoners...
This Way Out. In Hope Mills, N.C., the local constable obliged when Robert Allen made a frantic appeal to him: "You've got to put me in jail. I've got two wives and I just can't stand it any more...