Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Erhard appealed to the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community at Luxembourg to withhold approval of the Ruhr coal-price hike. To back up the appeal, Erhard wheeled up his biggest price-defense weapon-his power to let more competing imports into the country. As a starter, he ordered his ministry to prepare schemes to slash rail freights on foreign oil and U.S. coal. At week's end the coalmen were still holding their prices up, and Erhard was stubbornly getting ready to fire the gun of low-priced imports that always in the past...
Mary Stuart (adapted from Friedrich Schiller's drama by Jean Stock Goldstone and John Reich) is a great 150-year-old German classic which, despite the appeal of its heroine to English-speaking nations, seldom turns up in their theaters. One reason may be the problem of translation; another, the assortment of plays about Mary Stuart-Swinburne's, Drinkwater's, Maxwell Anderson's-that are in English already. Finally, 150-year-old classics have a way of showing their...
...Western ethos was still too alien. The teachings of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) looked like the answer. With its adoration of knowledge, its rigid pattern of family life, its elaborate ritual for such everyday acts as pouring tea and laying place-mats, Confucianism still has strong practical appeal in chaotic Asia. And because it is not a religion but a philosophy-it does not deal with theology or speculation-it can be followed without conflict by people of many religions...
Hearing the decision, railroaders were stunned, announced grimly that they would appeal immediately. Said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes with white-lipped formality: "I am astonished...
...added, however, that solicitations would stress the idea of the relationship between the "Program" and benefits for the graduate schools. Included in a sample appeal are such examples as improved faculty salaries and better housing for married students...