Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain's economic plight and its failure to make any headway with the Common Market constituted such a mess, said maverick right-wing Tory Duncan Sandys, that the country needed "a coalition of ideas" of both parties-an oblique appeal for a national government, as in World War II. The idea got few takers. Despite the hard knocks he has received lately, Harold Wilson is not yet ready to admit defeat. As for the Tories, they are not that eager to help bail Wilson out of the mess...
...Frankfurt University physicist, and Yong Su Cho, 34, a professor of French, both of whom supplied Pyongyang with military and political information about South Korea. Four others were condemned to life imprisonment, including Composer Yun, and the rest given prison terms from one to 15 years, which they may appeal...
Joseph Oteri, counsel for defendants Ivan Weiss and Joseph D. Leis, said he would appeal the decision to Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts...
...from progressive failure of his heart, Dr. Hardy gave him a chimpanzee's heart. The ape's heart was too small for the big man, and it failed within two hours. No other animals' hearts have been seriously considered for transplantation into man, despite the poetic appeal of a lion's heart. And even apes' hearts are too scarce to supply the predictable demand...
...size, sumptuosity, style and snob appeal, this resplendent volume wins any 1967 publisher's award for conspicuous taste. Suggested prize: a gold-trimmed watch-fob-cigar-cutter holder in champagne-tanned platypus pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English...