Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army brass tried to block them, but Yamashita's lawyers wangled an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A majority of the high justices in Washington, without passing on the fairness of Yamashita's trial, refused to accept jurisdiction. They declared it was a matter for MacArthur to review. SCAP's chief promptly hailed Yamashita's conviction as "beyond challenge," and sentence was executed...
...fierce sufferings of humanity the musical, like the novel, brings a real humaneness and makes a frontal emotional assault that has strong popular appeal. It is indeed the very pull of the thing that, for want of judgment, helps to pull it down. Thus, though the story has been greatly simplified, the effect is less movingly simple. For one thing, formal primitive speech often sounds stilted when spoken. But on the stage, sometimes a gesture is better than any speech; sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars...
When the last defendant had been sentenced, lawyers got to their feet to make an impassioned plea for bail pending appeal. Judge Medina rejected their plea, ordered the convicted men jailed in Manhattan's federal detention headquarters until the U.S. Attorney General selected the prison where they would serve their sentences. Handcuffed and flanked by a bevy of U.S. marshals, the eleven Communists were carted off to jail, a former garage, while the long and tortuous process of their appeal began...
...drop in ticket demand was explained by Athletic Association director W. Henry Johnson, who said, "The Harvard-Holy Cross game, more than any other game on our schedule, depends on the previous records of the teams for audience appeal." Johnson's statement has been borne out by the lack of student and general public enthusiasm...
...first issue published figures charging maladministration, others discussed Hynes' life, still others were collections of pro-Hynes quips that have come up during the campaign's progress. One feature was a book review of "The Purple Shamrock" by Joseph F. Dinneen; another was a series of editorials trying to appeal to the younger voters...