Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee emphasized that "we are not supporters of a President or of an Administration; we are supporters of the office of the presidency." "We favor," it said, "a sensible road between capitulation and the indiscriminate use of raw power. We believe that we speak for the great 'silent center' of American life, the understanding, independent and responsible men and women who have consistently opposed rewarding international aggressors from Adolf Hitler to Mao Tse-tung." Lest Hanoi get the wrong idea from antiwar demonstrations, it added: "We want the aggressors to know that there is a solid, stubborn, dedicated...
Surprising Guts. The campaign meanwhile has been slipping farther into irrelevance. While Stokes gibes at Taft for his monied background, Taft has hardly uplifted the campaign by harping on "carpetbagger" donations to Stokes from "people like Sammy Davis Jr." Nevertheless, the guttersniping has rebounded in Taft's favor, unstarching his early do-gooder image and unlimbering his political muscle. His record as a civil rights advocate is well known, and the unexpected vigor of his campaign has been impressive. "I think Stokes pushed him too far," said a Negro. "Taft has surprising guts...
...strongly in favor of an extension of parietals for all students ince he has "had to make Jane leave every night at 7, a terrible inconvenience...
...basis of the first two programs, the project is eminently worthwhile. Its originators decided to avoid a straight documentary approach in favor of presenting their material as dramas that emphasize a couple of critical moments or events in the subjects' lives. In this way they were perhaps following the lead of the fine television series based on John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. The scripts will win no literary prizes, but they do incorporate a good deal of historically accurate information and also manage to convey an idea of their characters' personalities...
...Residents predicted wide-spread student opposition to the measure. Many students signed petitions circulated in several dormitories by House Residents in favor of maintaining the tradition...