Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be unfortunate to insist too strongly on a sport's appeal when considering a request for a major "H". If the Department of Athletics is willing to spend a great deal of money on crew and a large number of students gladly devote nine months to it, the administration should contribute what it can in the realm of official recognition and support...
...individual executive departments." The Department of Defense was created, with a Defense Secretary given broad, general powers-but since prohibited by law from tampering with the functions of the separate Army, Navy and Air Force. Each service got its own Secretary, and each Secretary had the right of appeal over the head of the Secretary of Defense to the President of the U.S. and the Budget Director. The National Security Act, amended in 1949, expressly forbids "a single Chief of Staff over the armed forces [or] an armed forces general staff." Instead, it requires that the individual service chiefs...
...Perry Como and Dinah Shore, whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying to puff some life into his costly ABC-Chesterfield series...
...gone into action. So hotly did the weekly Journal argue the injustice of the Navy's action that Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, started an investigation of conflicting service policies by which hard-earned military retirement pay can be denied without appeal...
...Kudner's hands Buick became the car for fast, aggressive comers-a category in which every man recognized himself-instead of just a stodgy chariot for doctors and politicians. To meet the new appeal, Buick broadened its line to compete with more expensive cars. The Buick account was the nucleus of Kudner's business-nearly a third of its $66.2 million in billings-and the feeling grew that Kudner could do no wrong in Buick's eyes...