Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret police, from his job as Deputy Premier and Party Secretary and demoting him to an obscure and less powerful post as head of the Russian trade unions. Shelepin had surrounded himself with a group of former Komsomol (youth league) officials who are hawkish in foreign policy, favor strict control of the intellectuals and are known as "metal eaters" because they stress heavy industry rather than consumer goods...
...poster? He laughs. "The police captain came here himself, and ordered me to put it up. Well, it does no harm, we all know how we feel. But then he asked me to take down the pictures of the politicians. Look here, I said, I did you a favor, putting up that poster, now scram. These pictures are not coming down, as long as I am alive. He left--up here they respect up old fighters. Elsewhere I would have been arrested, I guess...
Most observers attribute Ackermann's strong showing to the voters who turned out to vote in favor of the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war petition. The votes on the petition will not be couned until Nov. 28. A similar petition on the San Francisco ballot Tuesday lost by a 2-1 margin...
...advertisements of Danehy have taken the Crane line, stressing the rising tax rates of Cambridge. If Danehy gets on the Council, it would probably tip the scales in favor of the anti-DeGuglielmo forces...
...Ackermann replaces Mrs. Wheeler on the Council, it would probably be another point in favor of the anti-DeGuglielmo coalition. During her tenure on the school committee, Mrs. Ackermann's relations with the City Manager have been none too cordial; only two weeks ago, she accused him of delaying a community schools program...