Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeal to Dean Leighton's office last week, the company asked for help in protecting the pay stations in the Yard, and threatened to remove the offended machines if present practices continue. Although Yard cops are always on the lookout, the Dean explained that Freshmen have been getting away with far too many "cut-rate" calls...
...might recall that in that question, as well as in the all-important one about the . veto power, the Cuban delegation was the champion of the opposition. In San Francisco, Ambassador Belt's impassionate appeal, and at Lake Success Professor Dihigo's logical arguments, were crushed under the steamroller tactics of the all-powerful U.S. delegation, with the result that you now regret...
...fact that the struggle in the world is for men's hearts and minds. The Marshall Plan had originally aimed to capture their hearts through their stomachs. But the cold hammering away on the plan's economic aspects had left it with about as much political appeal to an Italian peasant as a page from the Statistical Abstract. U.S. propaganda agencies abroad, limited in funds, were ineffectual. The U.S. spoke-when it spoke-from the other side of the Atlantic. Russia hollered right down the chimney...
...nature of the atom. But he knows almost nothing about the nature of God, almost never thinks about it, and is complacently unaware that there may be any reason to. Theology, the intellectual system whereby man sorts out his thoughts about faith and grace, enjoys much less popular appeal than astrology. With its "devolutionary theopantism" * and "axiological eschatology,"* theology is jaw-breakingly abstract. And its mood is widely felt to be about as bracing as an unaired vestry...
Last week, after four months of testimony, a federal jury in Chicago awarded him the full amount of his bill. The damages: $1,236,000. G.M. will appeal...