Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choice. Communists tried to counter the church's appeal by adopting an Italian hero who had fought against papal troops. The Red-run Democratic Front took as its emblem the head of Garibaldi, superimposed upon a five-pointed star. This week Christian Democrats distributed leaflets bearing their version of the new Communist emblem. The legend read: "Long live the Democratic Front? Turn it around and you will see the deceit...
...expected the U.S. to draw a geographic line against Communist expansion and back it with a military guarantee, were disappointed and wondered what could happen next. Wrote the London Times: "If the American Congress and people, already excited and alarmed, do not respond promptly and in full to [this] appeal for practical measures, more harm than good may well be done. Flames already high will be fanned, and the fire extinguisher will still not be fashioned. . . . But if the politicians and citizens of the U.S. do respond with firm deeds . . . new history will be made...
...court thought not. Said Lord Greene, denying the appeal: "This conception appears . . . unlike anything that has been considered in the past to be a good charity, and it cannot, in my opinion, be justified by any known principles...
Millard Sheets's watercolors look a little like illustrations for a travel folder, but they have a dash about them, and unmistakable crowd-appeal. Hollywood's art lovers, from the Edward G. Robinsons to the Johnny Mercers, turned out in style one night last week to open Sheets's new show: views of Mexican mountains and market places whipped up from sketches he had made on a three-week tour in January. Highballs in hand (it was that kind of opening), the stars rubbed elbows with local critics and museum directors...
...Hampshire -the first test of 1948-illustrated their point. Tom Dewey won six delegates-no less than he had expected. Harold Stassen won the other two-no more than actually expected. Each side was satisfied. Dewey's organization power was proved again. So was Stassen's vote appeal; Stassemen led in almost every town and hamlet in which he had done some personal campaigning. But in New Hampshire there was no real bandwagon enthusiasm for either...