Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repel an attack from any direction: from the U.S.S.R., from a European neighbor -even from the U.S. Before last week's voting, however, Air Force General Michel Fourquet, the French armed forces Chief of Staff, suggested that De Gaulle's "all-azimuth" defense policy be abandoned in favor of closer military cooperation with NATO...
...still produced affirmative votes of 58% and 57% respectively, but the totals were less than in previous elections. The tiny village of Briare (TIME, April 25), a near-perfect voting profile of France in the six previous elections, lost its sole distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris turned down the referendum 56% to 44%, and it could not win a majority even in the chic 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, the silk-stocking districts of Paris, and normally solid Gaullist. Women...
WINTHROP: Did they all favor the takeover, Dr. Pusey...
Harvard beat both crew in the final heat and moved into a tie with the Indians at 49 points, while Yale trailed by one. The tie was broken in the Crimson's favor since Harvard teams had beaten Dartmouth eight times, while the Indians had finished ahead of the Crimson crew only seven times. Harvard also held a 5-3 edge in first place finishes...
...middle-aged London accountant named Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) buys an otter to keep it from becoming a captive circus performer. Given his freedom, the animal returns the favor by wrecking Merrill's city flat and showing him that happiness is a cottage in Scotland. Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation. Even in children's films, a man cannot drift for long before a pair of pretty eyes begin blinking like a lighthouse. Here they belong to Virginia Mc-Kenna-Mrs. Travers in real life...