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Word: appealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religions, once passive, are showing renewed vitality and missionary zeal. "A revived Christian evangelism reasserting its 'Great Commission' to convert, and hence to dissolve, all other faiths, will not only embarrass America before the world; it will undercut our foreign policy and lend new fuel to the appeal of Communism in the East . . . Let us stand separately for our various truths. Let us stand together for the peace of society. Let us not do to one another that which is hateful to any of us. And let us await the judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theological Coexistence | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...worked for NBC, Minister Louw pointedly observed in a speech that NBC coverage of the Durban riots was "especially bad." When the deportation order followed in due course, Barzilay protested that at the time of the riots he was not even in the country. The government rejected his appeal, gave him ten days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Apartheid for Newsmen | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

Actor Saxon, born in Brooklyn in 1935, is not a convincing Puerto Rican, but if Cry Tough has a redeeming feature, it is his quiet, unmumbling appeal as an upcoming young actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...join the sweaty, sociable circle was Pundit Joe Alsop Jr., who arrived with a copy of Thucydides under one arm, sped off to an air-conditioned room in the residence of U.S. Ambassador Horace H. Smith. Columnist Alsop stealthily cabled what he thought was a scoop on the Laotian appeal to the United Nations. Trouble was that the reporter pool at the Constellation had filed the same story the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Getting the News from Laos | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Clark is a top money finder because he knows which insurance companies, savings banks, pension funds, or other sources have funds to loan, how much interest they want, and how to tailor each loan application to appeal to the loan-fund manager's personal preferences in collateral. For his services in introducing lender and borrower, Clark collects 1% of the gross proceeds of each loan. Sometimes, when an extraordinarily difficult piece of work is involved, he may raise his fee to 2% or more (the maximum: 5% of the amount of the loan). As a money finder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Money Finder | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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