Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations: his three-armed Pentagon (July 2, 1951), a camera-faced Amateur Photographer (Nov. 2, 1953), his Mark III Computer (Jan. 23, 1950), which now hangs at Harvard, and his 6-29 Radar Set, now owned by M.I.T. After turning in his current cover...
Thank you for a fitting eulogy on TV's last appeal to humor and reason-Sid Caesar. Henceforth I shall read on Saturday night...
...appeal to the Supreme Court, the Jencks defense asked a new trial in which, specifically, Judge Thomason would be required to act as screener. It was this specific appeal that the Government argued against. In the legal point and counterpoint, the idea never came up of turning the FBI files over to the defense directly. But this was precisely the idea that the Supreme Court turned into a rule of law. Wrote Justice Brennan, with Chief Justice Warren, Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter concurring: "Because only the defense is adequately equipped to determine the effective use [of reports...
...said; how else could he lure players? His words went unheeded. Fearful lest the youngsters be embarrassed by the publicity, local papers kept their names out of stories of the scandal. One of the boys is already back in a Jet uniform thanks to his father's appeal to the league's board of governors. The other, unfortunately, has yet to report back and apologize to the Jets' manager. He is home sick with the measles...
...panels had appeal for curators in both Britain and the U.S. Britons felt that they should go back to Sulgrave; Americans, mindful of the legend that Betsy Ross got the design for the American flag from the stars and stripes of the coat of arms, thought they should be brought to the U.S. With no rich American contingent in sight, the bidding opened at ?500, moved to ?1,000 before a young London dealer named Derek Cecil Davis began to bid. By the time the bidding reached ?2,500, it was between Davis and a dealer named Robert Jack...