Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Coach Joe Restic waited until the middle of the fourth quarter to pull his starting unit in favor of the second and third teams. By then, the Crimson led 42-3--a score that would stand until the gun went off at game's end--and the Big Green was pretty blue. Columbia blue...
...Italy, the first American woman to be named ambassador to a major power. As usual, Luce made a spectacular entrance and exit: in her first major speech, just a couple of weeks before the Italian general election, she broke nearly every unwritten rule by eschewing diplomatic platitudes in favor of a pointed warning about the "grave consequences" for voters if they became "unhappy victims of totalitarianism of the right or of the left." Four years later, she resigned for reasons of health: dust laced with lead arsenate had been flaking off the painted ceiling of her bedroom, gradually poisoning...
...difficult to tell about something as subtle and vaporous as a poet's reputation in a town not much distracted by free verse, in the heart of a republic that shuns poetry like castor oil, but lately the local wind seems to have shifted in Wright's favor. "I think there's a great deal of name recognition," observes John Storck, the youngish head librarian at the Martins Ferry public library and an organizer of the festival convened here each spring in the poet's honor, "partly because there are still a good number of his classmates around town...
Since publishing the proposal last February, the commission has received statements from 11,500 people, with 5400 in favor of the rules change and 5600 opposed. In addition, opponents submitted 27,000 from letters and petitions containing 16,300 names...
...fact, Thernstrom did not even submit it to the literary agent. Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English Michael C. Blumenthal who had taught Thernstrom read her thesis as a favor to her and was amazed at its scope...