Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to hope that, having slammed the door, he would not find it irrevocably locked behind him. He hailed France as "a friend and generous brother," called for economic negotiations. Though some Frenchmen wanted to teach Touré a lesson, others counseled the dangers of driving him to appeal to Nasser or his old Marxist masters for help. They thought that France should continue "a generous brother," only not so generous as to those who had fraternally voted...
Less than a year ago, the attitude of most Tory politicians to their leader, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, was respectful but restrained: a fine man in the House of Commons, they said, but hardly a man to appeal to the people. He looked too sedately Edwardian; people did not know what to make of him. Then, partly as a result of his U.S. visit and the widespread rebroadcast of a humanizing TV appearance with Ed Murrow, the British public-and Tory leaders too-began to see their chief in a new light...
...says Weigel, "are extremely intelligent as a group, quick in their perceptions and brilliant in their conceptions." The Latino also tends to combine the romantic loftiness of Don Quixote with the earthy unscrupulousness of Sancho Panza. He has genius for wholehearted friendship, and this is what U.S. statesmen should appeal to. But "on the level of mundane existence he is prone to be a refined or crude sensualist. He needs material things for life, but he is not squeamish how they are to be acquired. Since leisure, high speculation and ecstacy mean so much to him, he is coldly indifferent...
Trib will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court upholds the ruling, and Reporter Torre remains mum, she wili go to jail for ten days-and many a source for many a story that needs to be told will henceforth...
...panel of priests and doctors for diagnosis. After the panel has reported, the bishop may proceed to do something about it. But what is the demon going to do? He may be an Anglican demon-or he may lack completely the kind of intelligence an Anglican shows when an appeal is made to the bishop...