Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball fan for half a century, I dispute Tom Callahan's contention that we all depreciate present-day stars in favor of those from our youth [Aug. 22]. I rate Johnny Bench ahead of Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey and Roy Campanella. I rate Strikeout Artist Nolan Ryan above Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean and Sandy Koufax. And I rate Callahan's pithy, disciplined but delicious piece on the waning golden age above any single article I have ever read by Grantland Rice or Red Smith. So, Tom, don't go around prejudging us as prejudgers! Hear...
...about the obsolescence of heavy American industry, the spread of high technology and the growth of overseas competition, which together have cost thousands of Americans their jobs. Despite their claim to be a "Coalition of Conscience," the marchers on the Mall were not proposing to restrain their demands in favor of less fortunate groups or even to work for something we used to call the national interest...
Faced with a standoff, the Herut caucus finally asked Meridor to have a confidential chat with Begin. Since the Prime Minister was thought to favor the more experienced Shamir over his young and relatively dovish rival, any word from Begin would have broken the deadlock. But the Prime Minister told Meridor that "in the matter of choosing a successor, I do not want to interfere." Sharon then declared his support for Shamir. One reason: he may have been offered an important post in a Shamir government, possibly as chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Settlement Programs...
Indigenous ruburbanites have developed interesting ways to remind migrants of their presence. Inner-city inhabitants carry ghetto-blaster radios to announce themselves, but ruburban teen-agers favor, as the weapon of aural aggression, the 1973 Pontiac Trans Am with full-throat custom muffler. Rubber is applied to Main Street far into the night, accompanied by rebel yells and the shattering of beer bottles. Newcomers create different problems for the police. Although such naughty amusements are passe in the suburbs, the police chief of Harvard, Ill., had to ask the host of a nude cocktail party to pull the shades...
...pleasures. It is not, after all, Sunnybrook Farm any more than it is Haight-Ashbury or The Bronx. Notes Russell Minick, a newspaper editor in Newhall, Calif, (pop. 12,000), 35 miles east of Los Angeles: "To be a liberal out here means to be in favor of baffles on dirt-bike mufflers...