Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will see that everything is a lie, You will see that there is no love . . . Even though you are gnawed with pain, Never expect any help, Nor a friendly hand, nor a favor...
...telephone address to a regional conference of Republican leaders in Trenton, N.J., Ike called for legislation giving the President the power to veto individual items in appropriations bills as "one simple way to save a lot of money"-a thrust at congressional budget-cutters who favor economy on everything except pork-barrel projects for the voters back home...
...franc program of old age pensions and paid vacations and still had a proposal to socialize medicine on his books. The temptation was too great to resist: in the constituencies a vote against Mollet on the budget would not be a vote against the Algerian war (which most Deputies favor) but a vote against high taxes and against Socialist experiments...
When asked how much it would hurt the U.S. to stop testing large bombs, Dr. Libby says: "In each test we have learned something." Asked whether he would favor stopping the tests if the Russians did too, he says: "All we ask is inspection," i.e., to make sure the Russians keep their promises. An authority with access to Libby's sources of information believes that the Russians would lose more by stopping tests than the U.S. would, which may explain why the Russians will not agree to suspension of tests, with inspection...
...less flexibility in price-support levels than he wanted. Reluctantly he and the Administration adopted the soil bank, a three-year program of paying farmers to reduce production, with the hope that after 1959 surpluses would be gone, and farmers could get back to a free market. In its favor were plausible arguments about conserving the soil, preventing erosion, etc. But even before the law was passed, politicians went to work to convert the bank into an election-year bonanza. Benson did not v/ant to begin the bank until 1957, but Congress, its eyes on November, ordered him to start...