Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acquit Lenny Bruce and to dismiss the information. I dissented from the conviction and wrote a dissenting opinion that expressed some of my distaste for the whole proceeding-which opinion was found so sharp as to warrant the censorship of non-publication in the official reports. The reversal on appeal of the co-defendant cannot set aright the fatal judicial wrong done Lenny Bruce-a wrong that is one of the reasons for my retirement from the bench...
McCarthy's entry into the primaries against an incumbent President was unforeseen. His appeal on the stump, despite a low-key approach, was unforeseen. Most unforeseen of all-by the pollsters, by newsmen and by a shaken...
...Wildest. Unlike many of his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was neither an outspoken critic nor an eloquent defender of Viet Nam policy until January 1966. Then he joined 14 other Senators in an appeal to the President to continue a pause in bombing raids against the North. Four days later, Johnson ended the 37-day pause, and by mid-1966 McCarthy had become an unremitting opponent...
...jury was not convinced. Although it refrained from awarding punitive damages, it agreed that Bradesku was entitled to compensation. The Church of God promises to appeal the verdict as far as necessary, and it would seem likely that its constitutional arguments would get a warmer reception in higher courts. But the case has been so unusual so far that it would be foolish for anyone to predict the outcome...
...churches. Though "rural camp-meetings have been replaced by brick-walled auditoriums and revival tents by rainproof sheds," he writes, the raucous rhythms of lined-out hymns and "the resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says. He can shout good and loud and I'm satisfied that's the best kind...