Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abandoning the man-to-man defense in favor of a press, the Crimson stymied the potent Springfield offense. More effective passing and aggressive shooting helped the squad score eight unanswered points and cut the Maroon's 31-point advantage...
...season of frost and cold. The plant was regarded as a symbol of future hope and peace, and whenever enemies met beneath it they would drop their weapons and embrace. Kissing under the mistletoe probably grew out of this practice. Originally used to deck churches, mistletoe was abandoned in favor of holly and ivy because as one chronicier reports, it was "found to set young ladies and gentlemen a-reading the marriage service...
Azrael maintains that Soviet leaders have "knowingly sacrificed" the industrial future and consumer welfare of their country in favor of military acquisitions, which, he said, they consider to be "extremely valuable and desirable...
...answered about principled negotiation in theory and practice, but Mr. Engelmayer's shoddy exegesis fails to ask them. That is unfortunate, because we desperately need a better negotiating process than the one that is now producing a new arms race despite a massive global consensus in favor of disarmament, that fails to get food to starving millions despite an adequate supply, that has produced Vietnam and threatens repetition in El Salvador...
Barrett stressed that "although the Governor may be philosophically in favor of a bill," he would still veto it if one of his cabinet offices so recommended...