Word: disfavorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vienna, and the Communist capitals of Eastern Europe. The most startling sources of news are the huge wall posters that all week continued to pop up in the big cities, calling for or recounting mass purges (unreported in the Chinese press) and naming the latest leaders to fall into disfavor...
...hand, and royal etiquette says that the King should draw his hand away before contact is made, the speed at which the King pulls away is an indication of the importance a man carries at court. (The method is, at any rate, simpler than many signals of favor and disfavor given at Communist courts or even in democratic presidential mansions.) Last year Morocco's King Hassan dissolved Parliament and has been running the country singlehanded ever since. Critics mutter about his highhandedness as well as his high living, which includes ten palaces, plus fleets of airplanes and automobiles-including...
Wills, who was the National League's most valuable player in 1962, had fallen into disfavor with Dodger owner Walter O'Malley after jumping the team on a recent Japanese tour...
...avoid complete bankruptcy, HDC leaders realized they needed at least a small share of Loeb proceeds. It was suggested that the HDC become co-sponsor of every Loeb production, and that HDC benefit performances be scheduled when necessary. This was unacceptable to the Loeb's administration, which looked with disfavor on the process of assigning mainstage slots by vote of the HDC's whole membership...
Slopping Over. Despite Huberts efforts to achieve a rapprochement, the evidence of the polls continues to gnaw at Lyndon Johnson. He can take solace from a couple of hopeful facts. One is that other Presidents have dipped to even more drastic depths of disfavor and have then recovered-most notably, Abe Lincoln in 1864 and Harry Truman in 1948. Another is that many citizens will eventually realize that Bobby has soared in the polls at least partly because he does not have to shoulder the onus of high office. "If Kennedy were President," says Democratic Congressman Morris Udall (Stewart...