Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive, but a Vietnamese army embroiled in political maneuvering is less than the best ally. Moreover, fully 50% of the army's officers are Catholic, and already the Catholics are restive over Ky's concessions to the Buddhists. If, in their drive for elections, the Buddhists gain too much favor or show too much fer vor, the Catholics could well come out fighting into the streets on their...
...course, in raising such a question you have really answered it yourself?obviously any war must be finally ended by some kind of negotiations. But negotiations are worthwhile only if conditions are favorable for them. If you negotiate without benefit to your cause and struggle, that is a surrender in the guise of negotiations. And I am certainly not in favor of any such surrender...
Died. Field Marshal Abdul Salam Aref, 47, President of Iraq, a wily plotter who was General Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter...
...experiment that renounced many of the canons of sculpture up to that date. What it amounted to, as Gabo later wrote in his Realistic Manifesto, published in 1920 after his return to Moscow, was a rejection of sculpture as mass in favor of an expression of "continuous depth," as more befitting what was soon to become the space age. "With the plumb line in our hand, eyes as precise as a ruler, in a spirit as taut as a compass," he affirmed "kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time...
...this Williams's), young voters (who tend to associate Williams with the bitter recession years and Cavanagh with prosperity), and Republican crossovers (there are no major Republican primary contests'. Williams has the backing of the Democratic organization and of most labor unions, including the state AFL-CIO. Odds currently favor Williams, but the result probably depends on which groups of voters turn out in greater numbers...