Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Streeter turned down Damaschke's motion. Shifting the case to probate court, he told Damaschke to initiate adoption proceedings. Damaschke has understandably decided to appeal Streeter's ruling. He is afraid that if the probate court turns him down, Scott may be sent to another family. It seems a reasonable fear, especially since Judge Streeter had occasion to remark that "I act as probate judge when the regular judge is absent...
...their teaching had the special protection of the Holy Spirit, and that the church is heir to that divine guidance. Whenever the Apostles call upon the Paraclete for assistance, he points out, it is only to refresh their recollections about details of Christ's ministry, and never to appeal for "proof that their teaching is true." Simons cites Jesus' declaration in John 14:26: "The Holy Spirit will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." In Simons' view, the obviously personal meaning of the word remembrance "makes...
...court order expelling Miss Blueye from Hungary after completing her term prevents her obtaining a parole. Defense attorneys said they would appeal for a reduced sentence, but the prosecution will appeal for a stiffer penalty...
Republican charges about "mismanagement" of the Pentagon are misleading, but they appeal to voters for several reasons. Nixon stands in sharp contrast to Hubert Humphrey, who has emphatically stated that the United States has enough nuclear weapons. Humphrey's problem is that he seems willing to let the Russians catch up with, or possibly overtake, the United States. Such a position tends to worry most voters. And Nixon's concern about arms-control talks--that they should be negotiated "from strength and never from weakness"--seems more prudent than Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of arms negotiations...
...Turner insisted always wanted to broaden the vote, in fact often lagged behind their urban neighbors.) Turner's creative concept had caught the imagination, not merely of historians and students who revered him but of the people as well. It still does-witness Barry Goldwater's appeal in 1964 to the nostalgic hope of returning to the simple virtues of the American frontier...