Word: disfavorable
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This is right in the insouciant mood of his sponsor. Grief is sometimes inevitable at Forest Lawn, but never welcome. There "no signs of sorrow linger." This was the vision that came 25 years ago to a young engineer, Hubert Eaton, as he viewed with disfavor a debt-ridden, unprepossessing little necropolis he had been assigned to manage on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Promoter Eaton decided he would turn the 55-acre graveyard into "The Happy Cemetery." As a first step, he banned stones, substituted bronze markers laid level with the grass. Later he discarded the word cemetery...
Since the Conservatives are rapidly falling into disfavor, all the advantages of the truce go to the Conservative Party. It therefore enraged Liberals and Laborites when Winston Churchill blandly asserted to Conservative leaders: "The Conservative Party in the end will prove itself the main part of the rock on which the salvation of Britain was founded and the freedom of mankind regained...
...resident of the United States, Bridges was entitled to every protection guaranteed by our Constitution; as a labor leader who found disfavor in the eyes of reactionary elements, he was denied every one of them. Free, legal hearings declared his complete innocence of the charges against him; legislation was put into effect nullifying the results of such hearings. At every turn, Bridges found himself hedged in by the undemocratic barriers set up by those who, in crying for his deportation, shrieked loudest of the undemocratic tenets of the system to which they claimed he adhered...
...country to stay off the gold standard, insisted that public faith in the Government was enough to make paper money a satisfactory coin of the realm. His side won. Inflation did occur and the national economy limped along until 1819, when, with Vansittart's views in complete disfavor, the country returned to the gold standard with a sigh of relief...
...Kapital. Comrade Lenin was somewhat too electric for diaper-stage dialecticians. Comrade Stalin, densely narcotic in Russian, was practically lethal in English. There remained a library of dull, flimsy, semiliterate pamphlets (many of them translated from Russian via German). Moreover, their authors were constantly falling into doctrinal disfavor...