Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing subversive; one thought he had been fired because his name had somehow got on the mailing lists of a left-wing book store. They also claimed that they had not been able to find out the specific charges against them, to defend themselves before their accusers, or to appeal the decision that cost them their jobs...
...these claims got around Washington, the State Department (which had not named any of the ousted workers) hastily set up a three-man loyalty board of review to listen to their protests. Then State pointed out that the purgees could take their case through a series of additional Government appeal boards to the courts...
...their productivity has made the Soviet secret police the world's biggest business. Slaves build electric power dams, factories, canals, railroads. They mine coal, iron, gold. By Dallin's estimate, they represent at least one out of every four Soviet workers. Since they can be regimented without appeal, worked to death without mercy and paid little or nothing, they are the Soviet Government's most profitable labor...
That no imaginative appeal for new support is made constitutes a weakness all the greater because the foremost requirement for an effective student organization is a broad base of participation. Interest at Harvard in NSO has been more spasmodic than widespread. A minor tempest arose over the question of whether or not NSO should be affiliated with the International Union of Students, formed last summer in Prague. On this issue the "Progressive's" contributor, J. C. Farrar of Yale, takes a qualified affirmative position, proposing "affiliation at once" but only on the grant of "certain contingencies." Though reasserting the benefits...
...home runs in a season. With a golf-like swing, Babe Ruth used to send the ball to towering heights, drop it in the bleachers or loft it over the right-field roofs. Mize, a competent workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record, Ruth hit 24 homers in his last 45 games...