Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administrative details than with the ability of the U.S. to meet Europe's needs. The very bulk of its 3-lb. 14-oz. report inspired confidence. Its air of hardheaded realism, resulting largely from the shirtsleeve editing of ex-Senator Robert La Follette (see cut), was calculated to appeal even to Senator Robert Taft. Its main points...
Motion pictures don't appeal to the giant former flank man, at least not as a way to judge the mistakes of his tutees. "'Pictures don't lie' doesn't apply to football games," say Jacunski. "The camera distorts the play and sometimes you think a man could have made a tackle when he actually was yards away from the ball-carrier...
Simmons girls may only be willing to pay $6.60 for a Harvard man's body, but they seem to like the merchandise. At least they have issued an appeal to Squaya squires in hopes of culling a full house for a dance tomorrow night at their intown institution...
...main job of the review board is to hear appeals from men who have been found "disloyal" by the FBI and their own departments. Before these appeals can mean anything, the board must demand that the original Executive Order be tightened in several respects. As it stands, to take just one example, a department may fire an employee without revealing the charges against him. This has actually happened recently in the case of ten State Department employees. How can such men appeal, beyond calling in friends and high-school football coaches to testify to their fine characters...
...Rollywood's favorite ninepin, Marlene Dietrich. He's busy looking for Professor Grosig and the formula for a poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial white horse that wiggles its ears. You can't forget those gypsy kisses that's what the ads say. O.A.F...