Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calling for immediate withdrawal. If anything, this shows that radical solutions are becoming eminently respectable among students. Another 42 per cent said the military effort should "be reduced on the assumption that it will lead to a negotiated peace," indicating that a vast majority of those polled were in favor of some form of military pullback...
...Moscow, who also have had dealings with the North Vietnamese. Chester Bowles's visit to Pnompenh this week gives the North another opportunity for a high-level contact. If Hanoi does not want to confer directly with Washington, President Johnson has made it clear that he would favor informal talks between the N.L.F. and South Viet Nam. "The war can be stopped in a matter of days," Johnson has said-if talks start in earnest...
...more middle-level executives are entitled to chauffeur-driven cars in Socialist countries than in the West. Government ministers and factory managers in each of the East European countries fight constantly to enlarge their own pool of cars. They ride in everything from Fiat 600s to Russian Moskvichi, but favor the big and prestigious German Mercedes...
...style has kept pace with his growing control over poetic expression. His melodic style has deepened; the bluesy Dear Landlord (in which Dylan accompanies himself on a tinny barroom piano) is a subtle, intense, spacious tune. Moreover, there are times when he abandons his customary foghorn speech-song in favor of something identifiable as singing...
Surprisingly, Curle sees black power in its more moderate forms as another key component of any formula for averting ghetto violence. "I'm in favor of it as I would interpret the term," he suggests. "The black communities are separate communities, and we might as well recognize the fact, and we might as well hope that they would become complete communities as say, Cambridge is." Curle would favor blacks taking over essential community services such as garbage collection or mail delivery--things which whites now do but do poorly. The ultimate goal would be to foster a pride and independence...