Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals averted complete telephone paralysis only when a quick-thinking operator urged all callers to "make your protest direct to the Soviet embassy, Bayswater 3628." The United Kingdom's second great humanitarian society, the National Canine Defense League, made a nationwide appeal for one moment of silence each day at 11 a.m. The League Against Cruel Sports roundly expressed "horror and contempt" for the behavior of Russian scientists, "beside which the sickening stories of the inhuman cruelties of the Middle Ages fade into insignificance...
...Ejection. As he faced the Assembly to ask for investiture last week, the emotional impact of the occasion imparted a tremor to Gaillard's normally resonant voice. Then he steadied and briskly outlined his program. Main points: special powers for pursuing the war in Algeria (including a new appeal to the rebels for a ceasefire, a new discussion of the loi cadre), a 100 billion-franc slash in government expenditures, new taxes and price controls...
...kind of caper-cutting that previous generations took for a healthy sign of youthful high spirits-and sometimes mistook for a symptom of intellectual fire-has lost much of its appeal. There are some high jinks, but today's students go steady, marry early, refuse to worship the football hero, mostly leave the cheering of teams to the alumni. "Such irrational actions as riots are too much of a risk," says William Zabel, president of Princeton's debating society. "Anything you do out of the ordinary brings ridicule...
...much for his criticism as for his poetry. Dylan Thomas is admired, but evokes no hysteria. Students still delve into Freud, but they are just as apt to be worried about the psychology of The Organization Man. The one new American author who has something approaching a universal appeal is J. D. Salinger, with his picture of the tortured process of growing...
...main Republican hope in next year's elections is to win Congressional seats in Northern cities by emphasizing the party's stand on the Civil Rights Bill and on Little Rock. The results of last week's vote would seem to indicate the limited effectiveness of this appeal; both Meyner and Wagner strongly carry Negro districts. Northern Democrats have long been associated with the cause of civil rights, and even if on this issue the GOP seems stronger, to assume that the Negro votes solely on the civil rights issue is to insult his civic intelligence and disregard his economic...