Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent weeks the Communists' best agents and organizers have been moved down from Milan and Turin (where, said a Communist editor in conversation last week, "our work is already finished"), to concentrate on the peasants. Togliatti's tactic had undercut the Christian Democratic Party's appeal to the peasants that the real choice lay between Christian democracy and Red atheism...
Englishmen abroad, he has observed, show an unexpected interest in their church -probably out of sheer homesickness. And church-sponsored social gatherings are livelier affairs than the stuffy whist drives at home. But the church's appeal is not all nostalgia. "Of course," says Selwyn cheerfully, "a great many people think a parson's a fool, and come to us for a loan with some cock & bull story about being robbed on the Metro...
...date the determination of loyalty has been a clandestine operation, largely carried on by the FBI. The applicant or government job-holder wall never told the evidence on which a decision of loyalty was reached, nor permitted appeal. The standards of loyalty were neither standard nor known...
...President's order makes each department responsible for its own personnel, allows hearings at which the applicant and counsel may be present, establishes criteria of disloyalty, and permits appeal of two levels within the semi-judicial structure of the "Loyalty Review Board," now to be a part of the Civil Service Commission. It establishes uniform procedures where authoritarian secrecy existed before...
Terming the response to the appeal "very favorable," PBH authorities announced that although canvassing is still going on, Dunster House, Weld Hall, and Massachusetts Hall are all over their quotas for donations starting April...