Search Details

Word: appealâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...interviews. Frost feels they add a memorable moment to Nixon's long political life. A Nixon aide, however, thinks "the boss" came off well, though the experience was "draining." If by any chance Nixon comes off too well?in terms of either his answers or his dramatic appeal???there will certainly be Watergate authorities more than eager to set his record straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NIXON TALKS | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

Soon, with a climactic barrage of TV and radio pitches, it would all be over. Each candidate would make his final, election-eve television appeal???Jimmy Carter from a relaxed setting in his study in small-town Plains, Ga.; Gerald Ford from a site to be selected at the last moment, depending on his hectic closing schedule. Then, relieved that the campaign had ended, millions of Americans would cast ballots. Other millions, unmoved by it all, would stay home?and perhaps decide the outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: D-DAY, AND ONLY ONE POLL MATTERS | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...Economist John Maynard Keynes broadcasting advice to spend rather than save cut the sale of National Saving Certificates in Great Britain from 250,000 per day to 157,000. In this emergency B. B. C. soon afterward put Sir Josiah Stamp on the air and his stirring appeal??? A Thousand Million Saving Certificates! ?boosted sales so much that three days later 450,000 were sold and on the fourth day 500,000?a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chain & Flatiron | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance, the rich American heroine is drawing close to the embrace of the almost equally plutocratic hero, polo-playing Mark Van Stratton. The highest quality of Author Oppenheim's work lies in the universality of its appeal???this one would be highly acceptable to a semi-cretin or a college professor. It is hardly ambiguous to say that Author Oppenheim has produced, without writing a work of literature, the best 101 novels by a single author in the English or any other language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

| 1 |