Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With equal speed and assurance, he acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks in favor of general ratings (honors, pass, fair) arrived at by essay questions and oral examinations...
...dependence in any aspect of of life, is the shameful and destructive inheritance of our male-dominated history. There are many traits traditionally considered "feminine" (or more pejoratively still, "effeminate"), and evaluated negatively, but the solution to this may not be for women to reject these traits in favor of positively-evaluated traditionally "masculine" ones. Instead, we need to bring about a radical re-evaluation of all traits, approval and disapproval latent in classifying traits as "masculine" and "feminine...
While the students argued in favor of the proposal, the faculty members said they objected to it on the grounds that an additional requirement would place further restrictions on humanities majors...
...with which he ate his hot dog, to the Super Bowl Ring-sized finger, to the agility he showed reaching into his pocket to extract the money for his greens fee, he had the tell-tale signs of a champion. But I did notice something odd; he seemed to favor his right rotator cuff when he lifted his golf bag. I wasn't surprised when, three years later, an injury to that self-same area knocked Jimbo out for the season. McMahon slipped out the door ostensibly because his tee time had arrived; of course, he was simply trying...
...streetcorner harmony on the chorus. On both this tune and the heavily Latin flavored "Lost In Emotion," Lisa Lisa draws heavily on 60s girl group sound, but they carefully choose among the sounds of the classic groups to avoid the obvious sounds of the Supremes or Vandellas, in favor of the more experienced womanhood of Mary Wells...