Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commandant, Colonel Frank Howley-a rock-jawed Irishman-issued a bold appeal: "Berliners, show your courage . . . There are evil forces at work . . . whose sworn and ordered mission is to create chaos . . . The people of Berlin will not be permitted to starve." Unfortunately, Howley could not tell them exactly how they would be fed. Western Berlin depends for the most part on 2,000 tons of food a day brought in by rail from Bizonia, 100 miles away-more than could be supplied by the cargo planes which the U.S. and Britain were able to press into immediate service last week...
...Groaner's Friend. In Westville Grove, N.J., Louis Lichtman, who plays music to his 4,000 hogs to help fatten them, announced authoritatively that Bing Crosby and Guy Lombardo have greatest hog appeal...
Zuleika Dobson, a creature of Britain's Humorist ("incomparable Max") Beerbohm was a fatal lady with an unlimited appeal to men-and this despite the fact that she was not strictly beautiful ("Her eyes were a trifle large, and their lashes longer than they need have been"). On a brief visit to Oxford, she bewitched the entire undergraduate population to such a degree of unrequited passion that all save one committed suicide by jumping into the Isis during Eights Week, the name of their lady on their lips. Somewhat touched, Zuleika then moved on to Cambridge...
...many ideas for Look that he put her to work on it. She knew little about magazine editing but she knew what she liked-and thought other women would too. She added sections for women, tied in the covers to fashion features, saw that every issue had "female appeal." Look began capturing women readers. "Before," says Fleur, "it was bought by two million men, and women read it sort of by inheritance...
...once, Bob Young had nothing to say. (He had already said that he would appeal to court and to Congress if ICC turned him down.) But no one thought that Bantam Bob, who crows louder than any other bird in the railroad yard, was going to give up his fight...