Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confirmed Communist" but an "honest man"-Dwight Eisenhower went on: "One evening we had a three-hour conversation. We tried each to explain to the other just what our systems meant . . . to the individual, and I was very hard pufe to it when he insisted that their system appealed to the idealistic and we completely to the materialistic, and I had a very tough time trying to defend our position because he said: 'You tell a person he can do as he pleases, he can act as he pleases, he can do anything. Everything that is selfish...
First to protest were 25 South African Roman Catholic bishops, who issued an urgent appeal to all white South Africans to consider "the evils" of apartheid: "One trembles at the blasphemy of attributing to God the offense against charity and justice that are apartheid's necessary accompaniment...
...investigate only to alter or initiate legislation, last week fined him $500 and gave him a one-month suspended sentence on the second. Technicality behind the decision: Miller had not challenged the pertinence of the second question, therefore was not shielded by the Watkins ruling. Miller announced he would appeal...
...hazel eyes are long-lashed and deep-socketed; her full mouth pouts ever so slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With no effort at all, she generates a kind of sex appeal that is strangely rare in a town where sex is a major product. Marilyn Monroe parodies sex, and Jayne Mansfield parodies Marilyn Monroe. Kim Novak simply communicates sex without leers. She moves in a kind of rapt trance that is oddly provocative because it also seems innocent...
Fretwell accepted, then started to worry. What would be controversial, yet might appeal to the working-class parish? Fretwell decided against tricky techniques and went to work. He had less than five months to do the paintings, but he finished them in time. "By Jove!" Lane gasped when he saw them. "These are controversial all right." Fretwell had portrayed the Holy Family in modern dress...