Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position is, therefore, not that I favor a rapid withdrawal as a matter of policy but that I see the strong possibility of such a withdrawal as a matter of prediction-and I have come to the reluctant belief that the war is probably destined for a messy ending sooner than most Americans expect...
...Muzzle. White House aides who had been deployed in the Midwest brought back glowing reports of the favorable reaction to Agnew's assaults on the peaceniks. Letters and telegrams flowed into the vice-presidential office at a ratio of 3 to 1 in favor of his statements. The Administration views Agnew as a valuable weapon in its continuing efforts to keep the South safe from George Wallace. Nixon's own speeches, of course, are muted in comparison with Agnew's, and if the contrast makes the President appear the cool-headed moderate-well, that's political...
...Deputy, Rocard plans to work inside an Establishment that he would like to overturn. That is a role spurned by many New Leftists in favor of instant revolution, but it is not new for Rocard. Son of Physicist Yves Rocard, one of the developers of France's atom bomb, he graduated from the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration and entered government service as an in-specteur des finances, one of the elite corps of officials who supervise state spending. It is a position that normally opens the door to the highest echelons of the government and big business...
Making Headlines. An R.A.A.F. World War II hero, Gorton had a habit of flying high. He made headlines when he showed up late one evening at the U.S. embassy, a 19-year-old girl in tow, and spent the next several hours all but ignoring U.S. officials in favor of an enthusiastic tête-à-tête with the young lady. A short time before, he had carelessly leaked word of the U.S. bombing halt in Viet Nam before the news had been released in Washington. The White House was annoyed, and so were Gorton's fellow...
...Tufts administration has admitted that the company's hiring practices are illegal and immoral, yet they have decided to favor interests of the company through an injunction against its own students," Charles Yancey, co-chairman of Afro, said...