Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behalf of four writers imprisoned in January for underground literary activity, a dozen professors, writers and other intellectuals sent a letter to the Budapest meeting protesting the defendants' fate and that of "several thousand political prisoners" confined to prisons and concentration camps under "harsh infringements of legality." "We appeal to the participants in the consultative congress," said the letter, "to fully consider the peril caused by the trampling on the rights of man in our country." All twelve signed their names, even though, as the letter noted, those who have objected so far "have lost their jobs, been called...
...jury, no doubt impressed by the fact that he is the sole support of eight children, three foster children, two grandchildren and a wife, gave him the full $50,000 request, plus $660,000 as the insurance company's punishment. Itself outraged, Western Life quickly announced plans to appeal. But there is at least one way in which the company seems to have been lucky. The jury decided by a 9-to-3 vote, but the holdouts only voted no because they wanted to give Fletcher his entire $1,000,000 punitive request...
Hominy Homily. Wallace demonstrated that his appeal does not stop with the blue-collar workers usually linked to his campaign. During his two-day tour of Pennsylvania's industrial heartland, his audience appeared to be largely lower-middle-class suburbanites. Also, a few well-dressed men sporting John Birch Society pins trailed him everywhere. After George finished a hominy-and-homily speech in his best backwoods drawl, one Pennsylvania supporter boomed: "Wallace is a new Messiah...
Next week one flies to Bangkok for his pre-induction physical. Three others have just been doomed by the Presidential Appeal Board. Last week two more lost the 2-A classifications earlier promised to them for the term of service...
...this latest debate, for the first time Johnson made a strong appeal to Congress, along with presidential hopeful George Romney who urged all Republicans to vote for cloture. But Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), true to form, rallied the opposition with the cry that the Senate should not "gag itself...