Word: disfavorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little variation is allowed at a formal affair. Everyone is supposed to wear the whole works,--except for the top hat, which, alas, has fallen into disfavor...
...Telegraphic Agency. Among its 40 contributing editors and writers-most of whom speak Hebrew. Yiddish and English-are men who write in such specialized fields as theater, labor, TV and society. Socialism has softened into liberalism. The Forward looks with favor on John Kennedy, medicare and tax cuts, with disfavor on such traditional liberal targets as federal aid to parochial schools, the McCarran Act and racial segregation...
...make him a kingmaker, if not a king; Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, 63, beefy, belligerent Soviet Defense Minister, who controls the army; Aleksandr Shelepin, 43, ex-boss of the relatively sanitized secret police. Dark horses include Andrei Kirilenko, 55, a member of the Party Presidium, who surprisingly bounced back from disfavor; Gennadi Yoronov, 50, who was recently promoted to full membership in the Party Presidium with overall responsibilities in the make-or-break job of raising agricultural production. Apart from these men, any unknown bureaucrat may come out on top, and for reasons the West will never know. Khrushchev himself...
...army had chosen just the right time for the coup. Not only were Koudsi and his Premier, Marouf Dawalibi, in disfavor, but the army's reputation was at an alltime high, since it had performed creditably during the Israeli raids a fortnight earlier. The soldiers locked up President Koudsi, Premier Dawalibi, and some 90 deputies and administration officials in a prison hospital...
...that one also. He is a poor candidate who expounds an unproven political ideology. He will attack the Kennedy Administration at a time when the president's popularity is extremely high; he will run on foreign issues in a domestic race, and his notoriety has been more to his disfavor than to his credit. His defeat will reflect severely on the right-wing whose banner he carries...