Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domestic dissension, disunity and a lack of confidence in our Chief Executive at the very time he is involved in critical negotiations with other nations. We will have blunted our warning to the Soviets to stay out of the Middle East, and dismayed those friendly Middle Eastern nations who favor this approach...
...massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that Egypt must have arms to defend itself, and the U.S. refused to provide them. It was just a commercial transaction, he said. Wary now, but still hopeful, the U.S. made a counterbid for Nasser's favor, offered to help build the $1.3 billion high dam on the upper Nile at Aswan...
...divide the country by cracking down hard on industrial workers and intellectuals and building up the peasantry, who gave the Russians relatively the least trouble last October. Rakosi had been tough on the peasants ("Every Kulak is guilty of something"), but Kadar has redistributed the national income in favor of the peasants, even made the hated farm collectivization program voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they are now "almost as well off as they were under the rule of the Esterhazys...
After the election of Smith and Winter to the important positions of President and Vice-President, the meeting calmed down noticeably and the secret ballot was abandoned in favor of the speedier standing vote...
...entirely peaceful, had apparently been planned at least two weeks in advance and had the approval of various student government organizations. The primary cause of the boycott reportedly was "bum food"--more specifically "dried up hamburgers." Upwards of 350 residents in Baker House deserted their regular dining room in favor of the allegedly more tasty food in nearby Walker House, where the hamburgers were said to be "nice and juicy...