Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haig decided to go ahead with the meeting in part because the NATO allies favor a steady East-West dialogue. Western Europe in particular sees the encounter as helpful to the Geneva-based U.S.-Soviet talks on limiting medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. U.S. participation in those talks on Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) has been the allies' quid pro quo for allowing the installation of new U.S. missiles in Europe...
...force that came to be known as the Roosevelt coalition. To the solid South and the big-city machines, he had added an implausible combination of blacks and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that swept away a man's barn and reduced his house to splinters. The man's wife found him laughing...
...complaints against Japan are also coming from the industrial nations of Western Europe, which have found their own trade with Japan tilting increasingly in Tokyo's favor. Says a top Common Market official in Brussels: "Of course the Japanese sense that something has to be done. But getting them to open up their markets is like starting a car with a flat battery on a cold winter's day. It grinds for a while, and then it just stops...
Distilled mainly from oil but refined also from coal, kerosene was widely used for lighting and to some extent for cooking and heating in 19th century America. It lost favor as a way to heat homes with the spread of natural gas, oil heat and rural electrification in the 1950s. To Americans in their 40s and 50s, the smell of kerosene still stirs Depression-era memories of farmhouse living rooms with linoleum-covered floors and bulky kerosene heaters from Sears or Montgomery Ward in the corner...
...named Wilbur from execution by spinning blurbs about him in the barn doorway: SOME PIG, RADIANT, and so on. The astonished farm folk put away their thoughts of slaughter; they no longer regard Wilbur as pork, but as a tourist attraction, and even a celebrity who enjoys the favor of higher powers. Sweet Wilbur will survive to grow old in the barnyard. He gratefully sighs, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...