Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competition, in danger of seeing his many and distinguished accomplishments of 23 years in elective office dissipated by overexposure. Even to some of his friends, he seems the eternal boy next door, fated to be jilted again in favor of any sexy corsair passing through town. Except that this time the rivals?Senators Kennedy and McCarthy?are already in town, assiduously awooing. When Johnson renounced his candidacy on March 31, the tears that welled up in Humphrey's eyes could as well have been for himself as for his chief...
While only 21% want to keep the sandy wastes of Sinai, 95% favor retaining Jerusalem, 88% the Golan Heights, 61% the port city of Sharm el Sheikh and 47% the West Bank of the Jordan...
...theory that a genetic abnormality may predispose a man to antisocial behavior, including crimes of violence, is deceptively and attractively simple, but will be difficult to prove. The argument in its favor rests upon the fact that in a few prisons sampled in the U.S., Britain and Australia, the proportion of inmates with an extra Y chromosome has been found to be higher than in the general population. The objections to the theory are that no one knows the true incidence of the extra-Y abnormality, and that even when it is shown to exist, no one knows...
...favor of anything that would reduce the polarized situation that we are now in, anything that will allow us an umbrella for graceful withdrawal," he continues. "The look of the situation is more important than the content. If the look is ungraceful or dishonorable we may face really severe recriminations at home, and that would be really tragic...
...Finley and other Masters who favor such plans as paying tutors for specified jobs instead of giving them free room and board advance their plans tentatively. They are sensitive to the conflict between formal arrangements which will extract the House's pound of flesh from its senior and junior associates and the goal of such schemes--energizing informal relationships. The most fascinating question before Ford's new committee will be whether structural changes are adequate to cure the ills of the Houses...