Word: appealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...request, for whatever he wanted to do. It turned out to be a 45-mile drive downriver to the swank Seigniory Club, where he had lunch and held a greensward press conference. Perhaps his speech the day before had seemed too obviously aimed at Russia. So he broadened the appeal: the U.S. wants friendship with every nation, he said, emphasizing the word every...
...delegates gossiped, gamboled and, for a few days, found nothing much to argue about. But by convention's end, some solemn business demanded attention after all. One grim reminder was a pair of radioactive goats (survivors of Bikini) munching hay in the exhibition hall. Another was an appeal by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson for the doctors' support of a bill to remedy a serious shortage of Army doctors. The Army has only 1,100 Regulars in its Medical Corps, needs 6,000 for its present strength of some 1,000,000 men. The bill would raise...
Operation Nightmare (Mon. 7:30 p.m., CBS). United Jewish Appeal program, starring Al Jolson...
...York went 250,000 promotion pamphlets, inviting Americans (for $7.50 a year) to "Laugh with the British- at themselves." Editor Edmund Valpy Knox hoped to appeal especially to ex-G.I.s who got acquainted with Britain in World War II. But even for total strangers, he believes that Punch will still pack a wallop. Said Editor Knox: "If you get down to the basic principles of humor, I think you will find that what makes people laugh is the same on both sides of the Atlantic...
...from academic for hundreds of submarginal wheat farmers along Saskatchewan's western border. To keep these uneconomic producers from going to the wall, the province will probably pass a cumbersome moratorium bill. On the broad issue of the province's powers, Premier Douglas promised to appeal the Ottawa court's decision to the Privy Council in London...