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Word: favorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feels devoutly loyal to the Senate. He was informed that there were enough votes to ratify, but that all the Senators would be blamed by the opposition for casting the deciding vote to "give away the canal." Would Cannon help his fellow Senators out? He agreed to vote in favor. The leaders also sounded out West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph, a wavering anti. Up for re-election this fall, Randolph was already being attacked on the issue by his opponent. Would he support the President? "Presidents come and go," said the man who was first elected to Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Wins on Panama | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...weeks ago the White House telephoned again. Marshal Tito was in town. Would the Senator and his wife Cece favor the President with their presences at the state dinner? "I sat at the Vice President's table," said Ed Zorinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Wooing of Senator Zorinsky | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...directed by John B. Manulis '78, makes an admirable attempt at covering the same ground in a little over two hours. He ultimately fails, and U.S.A. is a frustratingly superifical production. It is, nonetheless, an entertaining play with a good deal of energy and several strong performances in its favor...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: An American Collage | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

...weaknesses and refuse to ratify it, without caring enough to profer a viable alternative. It looked like just such an irony might become reality, when the South House delegation to the convention presented the results of a poll of 69 students that showed that 55 per cent of students favor the concept of student government, but only a paltry 15 per cent would actually vote to ratify the convention's constitution...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Convention Faces Apathy and Distrust | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

...Israel, even without demanding it, received hourly information from the Pentagon, provided until this moment by the American satellite. The United States was only too willing to supply her with this because the satellite had shown that the fighting on the Egyptian front was not in Israel's favor, and because Dayan had admitted that the road from Sinai to Tel-Aviv now lay open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of Identity | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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