Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defending the administration's $71,800,000,000 budget in a direct appeal to the people, the President said in a speech prepared for coast-to-coast television and radio broadcasts: "The plain truth is that the price of peace is high...
More important, however, is the Supreme Soviet's appeal for representatives of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament to meet with Russian legislators to discuss banning nuclear bomb experiments. The United States can, and probably will, ignore the pleas from Africa, Rome, Bonn, and Tokyo, but it cannot afford to overlook the resolution passed in Moscow...
...this nation, where Christianity and democracy are bywords," said the assembly, "it is unthinkable that a Christian should join himself to Klan or Council whose purpose is to gain its point by intimidation, reprisal and violence, or that he should lift no voice of protest against those who appeal to prejudice and spread fear...
...priest-shortage problem was ably presented to the hierarchy by tall, gaunt Louis-Marie Fernand de Bazelaire, 64-year-old Archbishop of Chambéry, but the solutions he had to offer seemed nothing more than restatements of the problem: a revival of faith, an appeal to the generosity of laymen, and the request that Catholic parents encourage their children to become priests or nuns...
...young firm sent off to Warsaw a design for a five-story apartment building resting on concrete columns with balcony access for every apartment. Planned to such detail as the radiant-heating system, plumbing and size of bolts needed to fasten parts, it has a special appeal for the penury-plagued Poles. It is completely prefabricated, with every wall, except those for bathrooms, made before installation so that the building's outer shell can be erected before it is even decided how many apartments are needed on the inside. In April the young refugees were informed that their design...