Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Feeney does not deny this. He points out, however, that ordinarily Jesuits do not receive orders at a time of the year when they have already made all their winter commitments. It was for this reason that Father Feeney appealed the order. With his appeal, he said, he asked why he was ordered to Holy Cross so abruptly. The answer came back, according to the priest, that he was teaching "the wrong doctrine." He then asked what the wrong doctrine was so that he "might not repeat it in his teaching at Holy Cross." Neither this appeal nor Father...
Like a purple spotlight, the plot is trained remorselessly on the sins and sufferings of a beautiful Irish aristocrat (Miss Bergman). Besides being a great lady, she is also a fratricide, a moral coward and a tosspot. Ingrid is supposed to make this heroine seem an appealing damsel in distress. The appeal, despite beautiful efforts, remains largely potential. The distress comes through without relief, mostly in long, pale-lipped monologues and maudlin confessions...
Bewildered Candidate. Every so often, between the jazz records, the loudspeaker would blare out a four-minute record: "This is Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.... I appeal to you to vote for ... a brave mother of a brave son . . . Bob Coffey and I had a lot in common. We believed in progressive, democratic government . . . We were veterans together." Mrs. Curry Ethel Coffey, who used to work in the millinery department of Johnston's largest department store and had never been in politics before, was now travelling through the mined-out towns and hilly farmlands of the 26th Pennsylvania congressional district...
...national product of $254 billion. "Just three-tenths of 1% more of that spent on British goods,"he said, "and the dollar gap can be closed . . . First, study carefully what the Americans want. Then make it at prices they are able and willing to pay, and package it to appeal to the American consumer. That is the way to earn dollars...This will take energetic salesmanship as well as cheap production. It is the challenge confronting the business statesmanship of Britain...
Last week the church of Affrico was still empty, and its doors still walled up. Don Luciano had not appeared. The archbishop, who could not with dignity knuckle under to the rebellious flock, had referred the matter to Rome. The stubborn Affricans were considering an appeal to the Pope. Said one sharecropper, who is nominally a Communist but whose ideological reliability is subject to grave doubts: "Don Giorgio has been good to our children and risked his life for us. In him we have faith...