Word: favor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just about everybody in Europe but Charles de Gaulle wants Britain in the Common Market. The governments of Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany all favor British entry. Continental businessmen want a crack at the 55 million potential customers in Britain; the European public would like to line up with such a swinging partner; and even Germany's most outspoken Gaullist, Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, now feels that British admission is necessary to help Europe narrow the technology gap with...
...seven-month battle, Dief decided to quit as Conservative boss, but not without making a final spectacle of himself, first by running for the leadership, which hardly anybody wanted, then by giving up after the third ballot and backing a candidate who was rejected by the Conservative Convention in favor of Stanfield...
...Milwaukee archdiocese's recently organized priests' Senate. "Unfortunately," he said, "Father Groppi has become an issue himself. People are so disturbed by his actions that they lose sight of the cause for which he is fighting-that of freedom and human dignity. As Christians, we favor the same cause, but many are being sidetracked into a hate campaign directed against...
Such pressure has built up in favor of birth control and abortion that last week the continent convened its first inter-American conference on population policies. Among many revealing statements, the most searingly candid came from Colombia's President Carlos Lleras Restrepo...
Gold in Sea Water. In addition to poetry (four volumes), Jarrell was probably the best poet-critic since T.S. Eliot, as his critical volume, Poetry and the Age, attests. He rejected what Poet Shapiro calls "Eliot's High Church voice" in favor of "plain American, which dogs and cats can read." He demanded plain speech and uttered it. Thus his heroes were homespun Wordsworth, unfashionable Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and, of course, the greatest American poet to speak for the common man-Walt Whitman...