Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal to vigor and discipline falls on unhearing ears in a prosperous-looking France, where cars and motorscooters jam the streets and highways, and tables groan under good food and drink. Yet for all the look of health, the French treasury is empty. Last week the government borrowed another 80 billion francs from the Bank of France to meet the weekly payroll. The country's foreign-trade balance was unfavorable by 221 billion francs during the first four months of 1957. A billion dollars earned by French exports in better days has been dissipated during the past 18 months...
When Imre Nagy became Premier in July 1953, conditions improved. The following year, learning that AVO Boss Gabor Peter had been arrested, Florence decided to appeal her case. She was moved to a special prison where she was given a bed of her own. Says she: "Compared to what I had been through, it was paradise...
Fignole's popular appeal is natural. He comes from poor peasant parents, struggled for an education, discovered a hypnotic gift of speech, organized the poor blacks of Port-au-Prince and turned them against the well-off mulatto elite. Preaching a race struggle, Rabble-Rouser Fignole promised the blacks cars, houses and the mistresses of the rich. "Haiti for the black Haitians!" he cried. In more recent years he has tried to forget such anti-elite demagoguery...
...last the dictator saw that his haywire economic development lacked those prime essentials of productivity-labor efficiency and capital investment. He appealed to the C.G.T., but the unions had made their featherbed and were happy to lie in it. Seeking investment, he signed a contract for Standard Oil of California to explore and develop a null chunk of Patagonia. Because it was dealing with arbitrary Juan Perón, Calso insisted on the right to appeal deadlocked company-country disputes to the American Petroleum Institute. Even loyal Peronistas grumbled at that. At the same time, Perón turned angrily...
Last week Rhee's Education Ministry implemented his appeal, slapped a censorship ban on all "movies showing mistreatment of American Indians and reflecting colonialist thinking...