Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many expressions of approval, this tone was typical: ". . . an appeal to the finer sensibilities of thinking people . . ."; "it inspired in me a spirit of exaltation and rededication . . ."; "as, you say, 'religion informs art and makes it greater than itself,' so may religion inform journalism. . . ." Reader Carl G. Doney, E president emeritus of Willamette University, probably summed it up best, in saying: "Most of all we are grateful to Miss Anderson for what she is and what she does...
Little Children. Both sides were sure to appeal for U.S. intervention-the opposition to demand a fair shake, the Somozistas to get their victory certified. For about a year, ever since he got the word that the U.S. State Department favored democracy in the banana belt too, Dictator Somoza has been trying to get right with Spruille Braden. Asked last week about charges that he had tyrannized (and plundered) Nicaragua, he replied: "These little countries are like little children. When a boy's sick you've got to force castor oil down him whether he likes...
Children may now legally study the Bible in Illinois' public schools. After due consideration, the State Supreme Court has said it is all right. But Mrs. Vashti McCollum, 33, an angry atheist of Champaign, who had brought the subject up, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...
...impressive array of academic authorities combined to result in a recommendation that the bill be deferred to the next session. This action amounts to rejection of the proposal--at least for the present. But the idea of taxing its colleges is one that has always had a strong appeal for certain Massachusetts politicians, both state and local. That such a bill as the one which seems safely laid away could even be seriously entertained should serve to keep Massachusetts colleges and the majority of citizens who are justly proud of them on the alert to forestall any future threat...
...week's end he and Collins were still missing. General Barker granted to Terrorist Gruner an indefinite stay of execution, "pending an appeal...