Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward a real labor reform bill." He gave his point extra punch when he stressed his final-term nonpartisanship. "I don't come before you in any partisan sense-I am not a candidate for office." And he carefully stopped just short of the Write-Your-Congressman-Now appeal that would have weakened that impartiality. "It is my earnest hope," he said, "that Congress will be fully responsive to an overwhelming national demand. Thank you and goodnight...
...hopefuls, Massachusetts' "John F. Kennedy emerges as almost the only one who stirs any real public interest." Among Republican voters, "Vice President Richard M. Nixon shows up as a 7-to-4 favorite over Governor Nelson Rockefeller." But Nixon "emerges as an extremely partisan figure who does not appeal to wavering Democrats...
...spending so much time in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. because of his liver-the result of a lifetime of high living-that some of the country's tolerated bad habits had become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think of himself as the Thai Charles de Gaulle, but with Oriental variation he had also about him a good deal of Manhattan's late effervescent Mayor Fiorello La Guardia...
...Milton Resnick: "It could be said that art is not visual and that this is the most important facet for an art that does not appeal to the eye. I mistrust myself as an 'eye,' and in general feel unsympathetic to anyone...
...Models." Last week the very man who was briefing Hitler at the time the bomb went off-former Chief of Operations Adolf Heusinger, who survived both the bomb and arrest in Operation Thunderstorm to become inspector general of the new Bundeswehr-signed an appeal to be read to all troops. He praised the men of July 20 for "their Christian-humanist sense of responsibility," added that "their spirit and their attitudes are our models." It is now defense-force doctrine that a German officer may break his oath of loyalty when his commander in chief sets himself above...