Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson is not the shortcomings of other candidates. It is Stevenson himself. In the 1952 campaign, after a brilliant record as governor of Illinois, he brought a new quality and character to American politics. His slogan "talk sense to the American people" was carried out with few compromises. His appeal to the independent voter is great because-like Eisenhower-Stevenson is not primarily a politician...
...beating, recrimination and bitter division. The party had suffered a crushing defeat, its leader was aging and ailing, it was angrily divided between moderates and left-wingers. Before the delegates was a 30,000-word report documenting its failures. "We are an aging party . . . We are entirely failing to appeal to youth." But the whisper that went round the bars of Margate with the greatest insistence was: "Clem must go. If he won't go himself, someone will have to tell...
...newspaper editor reported one day last summer that while Premier Adnan Menderes was off on a trip, some political scalawagging was going on inside the ruling Democratic Party. "While the cat's away," wrote the editor, "the mice will play." The editor was arrested, and only by appeal to a higher court escaped a jail sentence of six months. His crime: imputing animal characteristics to the Premier...
...kindness, himself on trial for forging his own passes out of the prison, did his best to help. "Sometimes I gave him a swig of red Bordeaux or a chicken wing," testified the prisoner. "He was my guest, that's all." Billa's lawyer entered an eloquent appeal: "Billa is a pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in a tougher prison, where libert...
...Chaplain Father José Garcia two years ago set up a rehabilitation program which proved so successful that he began a nationwide crusade. Father Garcia fired off a circular to government ministers, church leaders and Roman Catholic intellectuals, denouncing legalized prostitution as "the major shame of the nation." The appeal brought only one response, but an important one: in Madrid, Jesuit Father José Maria Llanos, spiritual counselor of the Falange Youth Front, reprinted Father Garcia's circular in the Falangist daily Arriba, followed it up with a stinging column accusing Spain's upper classes of favoring prostitution...