Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solve the problem very successfully. Names on the candidates-at-large ballot are met with great indifference. For few are familiar enough with all the candidates in their class to vote intelligently. Election of class candidates to the Student Council is often foolishly arbitrary and depends on the appeal of the infantile blurbs published under their pictures...
...than the Democrats, simply by virtue of a larger campaign fund. The Senate Subcommittee on Elections and Privileges has revealed that the Republicans outspent their opponents 2 to 1. The GOP was able to obtain not only more time on the air, but, from the important standpoint of audience appeal, better time...
...appeal for governmental conference, Hoover repeated Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey's recent forecast that big federal budgets, if long continued, will produce "a depression that will curl your hair...
...Echoing Appeal. During 1956. he reported, "rising costs became an increasingly pervasive factor" in the economy (see BUSINESS). A major cause of inflation was a round of wage increases not based on any substantial increase in labor productivity. Output per worker, after rising an average of 3% a year during the postwar decade, registered "only a very small gain," he pointed out, while average hourly earnings in manufacturing and construction went...
...only 5 ft. 8½ in. tall. The jaw is powerful, the skin rough and swart, the profile jutting and rudely masculine, the lips sensitively curved and humorous. At a glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary personality, and women acquire the expression of poleaxed sheep; he exudes sex appeal like a leaky electric eel. He chooses his clothes with care ? the Italian shoe of exotic cut, the chesterfield with the velvet collar, the bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals...