Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations Appeal for Children, the worldwide campaign which Pessel's cry served to open, was conceived by Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer Aake Ording, to fill a gap left by the world's governments. A year and a half ago, when UNRRA had closed down, member nations of the U.N. created I.C.E.F to carry on its work for children. U.N. experts figured that it would need at least $450 million to care for an estimated 20 million semi-starved and rachitic waifs for a year. The money finally assigned to I.C.E.F. amounted...
...there are thousands who are willing to send Valentines to the Band, to show the true nature of their feelings. Yet despite their colorful history Valentines will not buy bus fares or hotel accommodations; and because nothing but sentimental aid is forthcoming, the Band has finally been forced to appeal to the University...
...circulated appeal for Sunday's organizational meeting, which was distributed to selected leaders in University extra-curricular affairs, emphasized that by uniting their efforts, various student groups can "de a very important job in rallying student opposition against UMT and exercising political pressure." It proposed the formation of a New England Youth Division as a chapter of the National Council Against Conscription in a move to compete with the National Youth Assembly, regarded by many local collegiate groups as instigated by the Communist Party...
...blushing, among the best ever made. But unlike many films of high quality, it does not wear its art on its sleeve. This admirable reticence may earn Treasure some peculiar awards. Movie trade papers are treating it as a western; Daily Variety called it "action stuff with heavy masculine appeal." Reviewer Virginia Wright wrote in the Los Angeles Daily News: "[The] audience . . . seemed to find [Treasure] hilariously funny and, once having decided the spectacle was comic, they laughed indiscriminately at murder, fear and irony...
Some people are just naturally the sentimental type, and some aren't. But the CRIMSON has a real appeal for its editors and alumni, sentimental or not. It is the affection of son for father, and father for son; the feeling that one has for a person or an institution that has helped to form his life and thought, as well as the fondness that a man bears for his own handiwork...