Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eloquent Appeal." The extremists were sarcastic. Sneered a leading segregationist: "A beautiful thought of everybody loving everybody else." Negro leaders welcomed the plan as evidence that contact has been re-established between whites and Negroes, but said they were opposed in principle. The Arkansas Gazette, which has been threatened and boycotted for its anti-Faubus stand, praised the plan in a Page One editorial as an "eloquent . . . appeal for a return to reason and good will. Mr. Thomas recognizes that any settlement must be in accordance with the law-or, more precisely, within the broad tenets of an interpretation...
...early last week even some of Good Officer Murphy's assistants were privately calling the good-offices mission a failure. Then came a personal letter for Felix Gaillard. The writer: Dwight Eisenhower. Its reported contents: an appeal to Gaillard to give the good-offices mission another chance-a warning that the U.S. does not want to be forced to choose between France and Tunisia. Diplomatically as it was phrased. President Eisenhower's letter was a clear threat that, if France took its quarrel with Bourguiba to the U.N., the U.S. would do nothing to avert the one thing...
...church by Unitarian ministers, and four times since 1932 weddings performed by a rabbi have taken place. But these last services have usually been clandestine affairs, conducted in express violation of the Corporation's edict. And the Corporation reaffirmed its decision as late at 1949, upon an appeal from Dean Sperry...
...know, Win-ter-green for Pre-si-dent), and his true love, Mary ("I'm the only person in the world who can make corn muffins without corn."). John's platform is love, the kind that sweeps the country as he proposes to Mary in all 48 states. "We appeal to your hearts, not your intelligence," the campaign manager announces, and John, of course, wins the election...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory yesterday issued an appeal that all those who witnessed the final revolutions of Sputnik II send full reports of their observations to the Observatory. The information is needed because the satellite's behavior in its final stages indicated that further studies of air density at high altitudes should be made...