Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the advent of petroleum and electricity as primary energy sources for many industries, King Coal has moved cautiously. The miners and their natural ombudsmen, their union leaders and politicians, were and are scared to speak out in favor of compulsory reforms that might force coal prices up and out of the market-and cost the men virtually the only secure employment in job-scarce Appalachia, where most of the mines are located...
...good week, with overtime, a miner can bring home $200, a tidy sum in the hill country. Besides, the mines are heavy tax producers for the states in which they are located. Thus it requires a great deal of courage to speak out in favor of safety precautions and equipment that can add to the operating costs of the mines...
Though still headed by Duběek, the committee is stacked in favor of the "realists," or those seemingly willing to compromise with the Russians...
...performances, though uneven in control and focus, all suggest a remarkable investment of energy. There results a sense of restrained favor in the playing which makes up for occasional lapses in comic timing. A great deal of good-natured conviction appears on stage inSchweyk, and from the standpoint again of didactic theater, nothing is so important as this. John Tatlock as Schweyk and Gerard Shepherd as his gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more...
Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., speaking in favor of the ordinances which finally passed, called them "a fair compromise in view of the fact that Cambridge's police and firemen are the finest in the state...