Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investment. In Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Quadros responded to a hospital's appeal for blood donors, fell off a streetcar next day and lost a leg, pulled through with a transfusion of his own blood...
What did Marshall expect the people to do? In the field of foreign policy they seemed to be rising to every clear appeal their leaders made. George Marshall's prestige with Congress and the people was probably higher than that of any living American. If he used that prestige boldly to ask support for a bold foreign policy, the people would probably back him to the limit. If they did not, George Marshall, facing the greatest responsibilities of any U.S. Secretary of State, would then-and not till then-be entitled to complain of public indifference. Meanwhile, the people...
...that this movement has widened the scope of its appeal, it must turn its immediate attention to the biggest job with which any organization has ever been confronted. It must prove to millions of skeptics that the dangers of an atomic war in a few years are so great that only such a departure from the present philosophy of diplomacy and international cooperation can prevent it. The stakes are the highest possible: human lives. Anything less than full participation in the discussion of this issue by every thinking American would be the most foolhardy form of indifference...
Undaunted, the crew members laid immediate plans for a variety show this spring and for an alumnae aid appeal, both intended to raise the necessary money. These ideas were vetoed by Dean Sherman on grounds of impracticality and bad timing; for it was felt that the revue would be unable to raise enough, and any appeal to alumnae would conflict with Radcliffe's already, scheduled fund drive for the spring...
President Conant added his voice to the Committee's appeal to make the drive a success, citing the "desperate plight" of foreign students and the pride the University may feel for aiding them...