Word: disfavoring
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...cancer; in Moscow. As ardent a Communist as her husband, she climbed the Soviet bureaucracy, first as director of a perfume factory, later as head of the cosmetics trust. In 1939, she became one of the first women to achieve Cabinet rank as Minister of Fisheries. She fell into disfavor with Stalin, lost her job and was exiled for a time-even though her husband remained one of the dictator's most important henchmen...
...person deserves anything, whether it be favor or disfavor, simply because of racial or ethnic background. A person is deserving of special consideration only because of his individual and particular needs and accomplishments. To point out, as you have, that there are black people is to admit and emphasize that black people are in some way different. If they are to be recognized as different, then they are open targets for discrimination-and, most likely, in a negative way. Let's integrate, not separate...
...have settled in everywhere you look to see where writing is headed, wherever you look, to find out what good things are happening. Examples are scarce; there are not many very good writers around, even fewer great ones. No one speaks of visions anymore-it is word in great disfavor, we are learning to live without visions-and yet without them without dreams of finding a way out, of bringing it all together, what is there left to write about that gives us a chance of going on from here? Confess your fears, deny your hopes, show love, pain, disgust...
With Withro in almost universal disfavor, Wil Stevens was the second man to be turned against, although it took almost the whole first semester for the four other proprietors to harden themselves enough to ask him to resign. Stevens had become only a figurehead for the HarBus...
...outlives it. Demosthenes gains the blood of the man he hates worse than death; the Athenians gain a civil war in Macedon, if we play our part, with the kingship in doubt, or passed to a boy they make light of, the more so since he's in disfavor. Darius, whose gold you want to keep even if it hangs you, gains even more...