Sentence:  Mrs. Blanche Dunkel , 60 , who has spent 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law , Ervin Lang , then 28 , <WSD>appealed</WSD> for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members , John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  take a court case to a higher court for review