Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only four months ago, ruling on the same set of facts, Judge Youngdahl refused defendant Peck's motion for acquittal. Speedily convicted by a federal jury in Washington, Peck was fined $500 and got a suspended sentence of 30 days. But while his appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decreed in the Watkins case that congressional committees must make clear to a witness that their questions are pertinent to contemplated legislation. Judge Youngdahl ruled that this aspect of the Watkins decision applied to the Peck case, and went on to newer ground. By asking Peck to reveal associations "remote...
...Washington could get out if town for the long weekend, Massachusetts' Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy set off a cannon cracker in the Senate that rattled the windows at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and painfully burned an ally 3,800 miles away. The Kennedy rework: an urgent appeal for the U.S. to step into the bloody Algerian rebellion against French rule and lend its weight to the cause of Algerian independence...
...constant opposition . . . to the struggle against the revisionists of Marxism-Leninism" inside and outside the country; 5) they had "attempted to oppose the Leninist policy of peaceful coexistence between states with different social systems"; and 6) they had "carried on an entirely unwarranted struggle against the party's appeal . . . to overtake the United States" in food production...
...Ireland belonged to an alien faith made Briscoe a headline name throughout the world, and the new Lord Mayor's winning, puckish and amiable personality did the rest. This spring, after he returned home from a triumphant tour of the U.S., extolling Ireland and Israel (the United Jewish Appeal paid for his trip), Briscoe's place on the Irish scene seemed reasonably secure. But Irish politics are never that simple...
...hewing to the line of mass appeal, argued Murrow, sponsors and broadcasters are lowering the prestige of TV to the point where the viewer is taking it less seriously-and its commercial credibility has begun to suffer. He added: "Perhaps the answer is that so-called public-service programing has got to get better. It must be done with more imagination, and achieve greater appeal . . . I don't believe that television has even begun to tap the possibilities that lie in the field of reality...