Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they waited in a Santiago jail for the final decision on their asylum appeal, Antonio's cash quickly eased the rigors of incarceration. The cells were provided with comfortable beds; there was wine aplenty, after-hours dinner parties for their friends, and free use of the penitentiary telephones. Jorge & Co. paid some of Chile's highest-priced lawyers at least $56,000 to fight Argentina's extradition attempts...
...attempt to give a topical horror story broad human appeal, the show at worst falls at times into cliché; it does not start with it. Distinguished merit West Side Story lacks; but its distinguishing merit, its putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history...
...discovery can mean divorce, suicide, and occasionally even murder. In Saitama prefecture one day recently, an eta suicide left a note saying: "Even in death I cannot forget I am an eta. I hope I will be reborn in a better place.'' In Tokyo last year, an appeal for nondiscrimination brought offers from a number of small business firms to hire etas. But of 40 who were hired, all save two quit in less than a year because they were unable to stand the sidelong glances and open contempt of their fellow workers...
Malott told the student leaders to act fast to change the system or the faculty would change it for them. This appeal to the student body was a last, feeble call based on the old "Freedom and Responsibility" slogan: that is, the students should work out their own problems by themselves. This appeared a bit ridiculous since the validity of "Freedom and Responsibility" rests largely on the recognition by the group of its responsibility. The Cornell student body had to be told to recognize its responsibility...
...been as meaningful to him as the loss of a child to one of us." This outsized sense of responsibility fills Murrow's work with conviction and sincerity. Says a colleague: "Above all of us in this business, Ed Murrow is the one who can make serious matters appeal to large audiences...