Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowadays, Atheist Togliatti firmly clutches the palm branch. Recently, in the Italian Assembly, one of his Christian Democrat opponents ended a bombastic speech with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin; the next speaker windily invoked the Holy Ghost. Communist Togliatti did not reply with dialectical materialism; instead, his steady voice crackled out the First Commandment-"lo sono il Signore Dio tuo. . . ." His fellow legislators cheered...
Faced by an alarming obstacle in their attempt to dethrone the Whiffenpoofs from the mythical harmony throne of the East, twelve husky-treated undergraduates yesterday sent out an appeal for someone to name their new singing group...
...plot cartel, J. Arthur Rank has shunned customary procedure in his totally unorthodox presentation of a documentary film. Centered around the historic migration of Australian cattle herds to escape a threatened Japanese invasion, "The Overlanders" becomes experimental by American standards in its complete emphasis on realism without the added appeal of ersatz excitement. Mr. Rank has successfully produced an absorbing, plausible movie and neatly avoids treading on the worn-down heels of contemporary horse operas...
...committee issued an appeal for all men who served on the temporary Album committee to come out for the new staff. Said Regal, "On a temporary basis we have been able to organize only a skeleton framework of a staff. We invite any Class member to contribute his talent...
...Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen Barton '45 and some nicely-written criticism by James J. Taylor '48, The Progressive well deserves to be successful in its ambitious circulation plans. A little more color in the die-straight writing. and the magazine would appeal to the potentially, as well as the already, politically conscious student...