Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's end with time off for good behavior. When the news came that Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had refused clemency, the pudgy, ailing onetime child prodigy told reporters, "I stand at the open graveside of my hopes." Later he said he would make a third appeal for parole...
...also breaks frequent exposés of crooked stock promoters and unscrupulous company raiders, and does a good job as well of more routine business reporting. Many smaller papers have developed one-industry specialists who are read faithfully by executives throughout the country. Among them: the Memphis Commercial Appeal's Cotton Columnist Gerald Bearing, New Orleans Times-Picayune's Oil Editor Jeff Davis, the Salt Lake City Tribune's Mining and Oil Specialist Robert W. Bernick...
...tribes of Israel in the wilderness . . . considered the 'period of Belial' similar to the 40 years' wandering, and hoped and believed that in the very near future they would 'reenter' the 'new Land of Promise.' There could be no stronger appeal to the hearts and minds of the people descending from the Dead Sea sect than in those metaphors which are so abundant and characteristic of the Epistle to the Hebrews...
Hartz spoke on "The Appeal of Marxism" in the fourth of five public lectures scheduled for the Summer School and open to the public...
...appeal of Marxism is its theoretical synthesis of certain conservative and liberal concepts," Louis Hartz, professor of Government, told an overflow audience in the Lamont Forum Room Thursday...