Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, State does not want this new association with European powers to imply that the U.S. is endorsing colonialism. Nor does the U.S. intend to give up its freedom of action in non-NATO areas, e.g., Formosa Strait. Nonetheless, the drafted proposals are a challenge and an appeal to the nations of Western Europe to draw closer together, with U.S. support...
Scanning the future, the President saw challenges. Foremost will be "the Communist threat." Warned Ike: we must meet it "in every conceivable way it can appear." Another challenge was complacency: "It has no place in my vocabulary." To a partisan audience he made a practical appeal for help in getting a Republican Congress elected: "I think it is only logical that the people you give to me as my closest associates ... be bound to me by terms of party loyalty as well as official and personal loyalty...
Last week a ministry official declared Lady Garbett had no right of further appeal. She may rent her house and land to a tenant if she can find one "acceptable" to the A.E.C. Or she may sell to an A.E.C.-approved farmer. But she may not move back into her own home. Growled the Daily Express: "Maybe Lady Garbett is a deplorable farmer. Maybe the Ministry of Agriculture is fully justified in its contention that her land is neglected. But is not Britain a free country? Is she not the rightful owner of her own farm? It is a scandal...
Lately the Mau Mau terror there has been reduced by police drives and by surrenders induced by government promises of good treatment. But a diehard gang of natives still hides out in the mountain forests, and Missionary Devitt decided to appeal to them directly. With little thought for his own safety, Devitt gathered eight surrendered terrorists and a Kikuyu clerk and went up the mountain, unarmed, with his portable sound equipment...
Helpful Wife. But of the many Frémonts imprisoned in the single man, there is one who survives with rare appeal: the young explorer who "saw visions," led expeditions to the West which made him a popular hero and brought back information so precise and engagingly written that the passage of more than a century has hardly affected its freshness. Fremont was a young officer in the Army Topographical Corps when he headed his first three Far Western expeditions in the 1840s. His reports to the Government were written with the help of his talented wife; the first...