Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to choose speeches that would appeal to everyone--the whole class, families, professors. We tried to foresee what they'll be responsive to in choosing the speeches," said Marilee L. S. Chang '87, co-chairman of the Class Day committee...
With classical music's snob appeal and the air of mystery that surrounds it, it is all too easy to get turned off by it, or to avoid cultivating a taste...
...Grew is worth some effort, even from initiates. Beneath its self-congratulatory veneer, the story generates considerable poignancy and appeal. There is the little girl who takes a train trip from Seattle with her beloved parents to visit relatives in Minneapolis. Then her mother and father die, victims of the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving the heroine and three younger brothers orphaned into the harsh care of an aunt and uncle: "If I was beaten with a razor-strop for having won a prize in a city-wide essay contest, I had no need to ask myself...
...liner, failed to prevent the Administration from accepting the two-track policy, but he won the next battle: the U.S. proposed that if the Soviets eliminated all their SS-20s, NATO would not just restrict its prospective deployment but cancel it altogether. The simplicity and boldness of the scheme appealed to Reagan, and it had the advantage of seeming to give some of the noisier Europeans what they wanted. Pacifists and critics of NATO in Schmidt's Social Democratic Party had called for the Null-Losung, the "zero solution," although for them, along with "ban the Bomb" and "zone...
...Palestine Liberation Organization. Throughout his military trial Napso, now 32, maintained his innocence, claiming that some of the evidence presented against him had been tampered with. Last February, under a new law permitting Israel's Supreme Court to review military verdicts, Napso won the right to an appeal. It is scheduled to be heard in late...