Word: disfavored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave him a rising ovation at their annual convention in San Francisco. Half-time score: as the hopeful who risked the most in the session's hottest issue, Kennedy is the only one of the Big Four who did not lose heavily. He could balance off whatever union disfavor he incurred against the respect he earned for a man-sized fight against union racketeers. He convinced everyone that his footwork is good, leaving the question of whether he can fight to overcome his biggest political handicap...
...sticks to the no-bathing-suit ban, blonde Mary Jean Belitz, 18, last week gave up her Miss Omaha title. To Mary Jean's mother, the ban was bewildering: her pert (36-24-36) daughter had often appeared in the briefest drum-majorette costumes without causing church disfavor...
...excitement and a frenzy of war, needs an outlet for its pent-up energy. When this was not unleashed against India, very naturally it ate into the political structure of Pakistan. Of course, it was foreign military aid that made the army powerful. Indeed, it is a great disfavor to the people of Pakistan that most of the aid they receive from the U.S. goes to support their army rather than projects beneficial to them, for example, dams, factories, power-stations, schools and hospitals. It is an encouraging sign that even Secretary Dulles has admitted undue emphasis on military...
President Harlow Curtice irritated G.M. division heads, who had to grin and bear it as Ellis went over their heads to Curtice with his problems. When Kudner fell into disfavor with Buick, other division heads called an open season on the agency, aware that Curtice, who is scheduled to retire next year, would be hard pressed to defend it. As of last week, Kudner had only four small G.M. accounts worth some $6.000,000 left-Fisher Body, Allison Engine, Cleveland Diesel, Detroit Diesel. Madison Avenue was taking bets on which would be the next to go, and who would pick...
Conant admitted that he had argued against some of Kennan's ideas and reiterated that these plans would probably meet with disfavor in Germany today...