Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graham spoke three times but soft-pedaled his presence in favor of other speakers. He took quiet pride in the spiritual strength of his young colleagues. With schooling of only six years on average, "they aren't educated," he said, "but they know the Bible." And they will ensure that evangelism remains vigorous. Their average age is 31, and many will be toiling in distant places long after Graham is gone...
...addition, a letter signed by Vorenberg and other law deans said Manion had knowingly violated Supreme Court rulings he did not favor when serving as a legislator in his home state of Indiana...
...painters from Gustav Klimt to Wassily Kandinsky. His most eccentric episode was that of the doll. In the spring of 1912 he fell violently in love with Alma Mahler, widow of the composer and a pretentious man-eater. Their affair lasted three years, and she dumped him in favor of the architect Walter Gropius soon after Kokoschka enlisted in the imperial dragoons to fight in the first World War. This, combined with the horrors of the trenches and the shock of being shot and bayoneted nearly to death, drove O.K. over the brink. He had a Munich dollmaker construct...
...first time. Immediately, I looked at Lane 4, the lane for the fastest qualifier, and slowly my eye went back and forth, back and forth." Like dreamy children, the swimmers Gaines and Steve Lundquist, the basketball player Ann Meyers, the triple jumper Willie Banks, among others, spoke in favor of peace at an extraordinary press conference whose subjects ranged from a reunion of the Apollo-Soyuz spacemen to a statement delivered on behalf of the Athletes-Against-the-Bomb Rugby Tour. Sighed Banks: "All my life I've wanted to do something important...
...special consideration from the U.S., even to the extent of benignly overlooking borderline Israeli activities in America." For years that appears to have been the view of the U.S. Government as well. But among at least some officials of the Administration, that policy may now have fallen out of favor...