Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a Beale Street department store. Fires were set to the garbage piling up at a rate of nearly 500 tons a day. Windows have been broken in laundries and barbecue restaurants bearing the Loeb name (they are owned by the mayor's brother). "I am not in favor of violence," said the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., an erudite militant who leads much of the Negro struggle. But "if I were inclined to advocate burning, it would be in East Memphis [where the mayor lives]-I think we've had enough talk of this burning down...
...controversy at B.U. has demonstrated the growing uneasiness of the university-military alliance on which ROTC is based. Although the first move to "dis-credit" ROTC came from a small group of radical students, later faculty response in favor of changing the status of ROTC was overwhelming. The students and the faculty may have emphasized different aspects of the ROTC issue, but the underlying idea that military training is not a proper function of a university now seems to have won widespread acceptance...
...stand on foreign policy is far different from the radicals'. He does not believe that U.S. business and military involvement in the "third world" is wrong. And even in Vietnam, he does not favor immediate unconditional withdrawal...
...certain what effect these tactics will have on the voters Tuesday. McCarthy and his supporters are hoping a backlash of resentment against the charges will work in their favor, just as the Johnson pledge card effort had done at the beginning of the campaign...
...Boston) is trying to get even with Kennedy for Ted's refusal to endorse him in a recent race for a state senate seat. One observer pointed out that Ted's endorsement would have proved "the kiss of death" to Feeney and that Ted was doing Feeney a favor. Feeney lost, so he didn't see it that...