Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers who wrote TIME, 90% (mostly laymen) were in favor of Dr. Kris's decision to bill the Hoopers...
...which you must have used as your source material, can in no way be considered concrete, authoritative evidence. Ataturk achieved many great reforms, among which was the secularization of the Turkish state, but he never said, or even implied, that this separation of the state from religion was in favor of atheism or irreverence for Islam. Ataturk personally believed in the teachings of Islam and had a great respect for Mohammed...
...first time in modern history to have a vast, tariff-free trading zone comparable to the U.S., embracing six nations and 160 million people. At the same time (see below), the most powerful of Western European nations, West Germany, voted, to outlaw the return of cartels in favor of free enterprise and competition. It did so largely at the insistence of one man-Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard. West Germany's new law, though it was not all that Erhard hoped for, was big news in a Western Europe that talks freedom but practices monopoly and restraint of trade...
...except for Author Dennis' quips and quiddities, e.g., anent the nouveaux riches: "Better nouveau than never." The book also enjoys spoofing the Hippocratic oath of the hotel business. "What is a Guest? A Guest is the most important person in this hotel . . . We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a service by permitting us to do so." After staging a hectically traditional Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns...
...Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced, one by one, a galaxy of star witnesses including the creator of Hitler's V2, Wernher von Braun, to deliver what he called "mitigating" evidence. "Is not Nickerson bitterly partisan?" he asked one witness, a German research scientist. "Yes-in favor of the Army," said the scientist...