Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helmet, Red Sweater. Thirty-two hours had passed, and Moss was reported to be "weakening fast." At 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, in answer to a broadcast appeal for an "expert potholer, less than 5 ft. tall, weighing under 112 Ibs., exceptionally athletic and with unlimited courage," June Bailey, 18, appeared, a slip of a girl wearing a red helmet and red sweater. She was instructed to break both of Moss's collarbones to help narrow the width of his shoulders and perhaps free him. But before she could enter the shaft, the trapped man had died...
...will be part of the design, instead of being grafted on, as at present. The famed center statue of Eros, god of love, which makes the traffic go round, will still be there but no longer the center of things. Sentimentalists wonder whether the new, streamlined circus will still appeal to London's lonely lads and lasses (including streetwalkers) as a rendezvous...
...Among them: a "Preventive Detention Act" which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without the approval of any court and the only appeal would be to a star chamber composed of five Rhodesian M.P.s...
...meeting took place on an August day in 1957. Michiko, then 22, had grown into a young woman who moved with fluid grace, spoke in the soft, cultured tones of a Sacred Heart graduate, had quick, attentive eyes and a slow, demure smile. She radiated a maidenly appeal rather than sexiness, and there was the fascinating impression of a number of locked doors lying behind her reserved manner...
...public service" they called it) and it just snow-balled. Last year it was in the list of top ten L.P.'s in England for a while, and now it's getting started in Australia, I understand. I don't expect it to get much further since its appeal is limited to an English-speaking audience...