Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their peoples assume responsibility for their own affairs." As for the cold war, Eden's theory was that "it is not so much military containment as political enlightenment which is the need of the day. Let us there fore be quite clear about our own philosophy in the appeal we make to other lands...
...week, as the games got under way, even when they did not win, the surprisingly powerful Russians piled up points in almost every event they entered. The U.S. was substantially nowhere. ¶Bobsledding, almost a private sport for hefty, hare-brained daredevils, held no appeal for the Russians. Italian Jet Pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa, who knew every bump on the dangerous chute, put his long hours of practice to good use, swooshed home in front of his teammate Eugenio Monti. The best the U.S. could salvage was a slow fifth by Connecticut's Bud Washbond...
EFFECTIVENESS OF LEADERSHIP (2,000 points out of 2,100): The church's recent leadership has been "extremely effective." "The present Pope has wisely selected bishops a step above the previous type. Most important of all, Pope Pius XII has recognized the need of a fresh appeal to the workingman, while bringing the church to the middle classes to a much greater extent than formerly...
Making music seems to have a special appeal for doctors; there is a similar doctors' orchestra in Los Angeles, and doctors' chamber groups are innumerable. Says Ophthalmologist Alfred E. Mamelock (clarinet), president of the New York doctors' orchestra: "The taste for medicine and the taste for music are the same kind of thing. Medicine is an art as much as it is a science, if not more...
Corporations must bargain with unions on stock purchase plans if the company contributes toward purchase of shares. So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington last week in a precedent-setting decision. In a case involving Richfield Oil Corp. and the C.I.O.'s International Oil Workers Union, the court upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Richfield's stock plan (jointly financed by worker and company contributions) was in effect a wage increase, thus a bargaining matter. Richfield, which will appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, argued that the ruling "permits the union...