Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the College "is definitely losing out in its appeal to the lower income groups locally" because of the rising expense of a Harvard education, especially the high cost of paying for room and board in the Houses...
...Judge of the Divorce Court is by Miguel de Cervantes, who was supposed to have written Don Quixote while in jail. Now we have an idea of what he was jugged for. The play presents several couples who appeal to the judge for divorces, and do not get them. Then somebody else comes in and complains about his wife, while nobody (either onstage or in the audience) listens. Then two musicians sing a song, and that's all. At the end, none of the characters is any better off than before, and neither is the audience...
Spencer Tracy plays the stranger, a man endowed with the resourcefulness of Robinson Crusoe, to say nothing of an incredible judo chop. Robert Ryan is the principal meanie, but his neanderthal sidekicks supply most of the diabolic appeal. Anne Francis contributes the moist lipstick...
...sign on as high-paid laborers on the base, joining the 1,200 workmen imported from Pakistan. A Maldivian official sent from the capital island of Male to persuade the people of Gan to go back to their proper jobs was attacked by a mob and had to appeal to the British for protection...
...goal will be to recruit a student body not markedly distinguishable at entrance from those of first-rate colleges. Inevitably, the fact that New College is a new kind of institution will tend to attract, during the first years, students to whom pioneering makes an appeal. That will be all to the good...