Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lodge, however, conformed to the standing U.S. policy in favor of airing all charges against the United States. He voted with the Soviet delegation for a debate. Others voting for debate were Czechoslovakia, Egypt, India and Britain...
Extra-curricular activities are also important in the selection process, but only as "a secondary factor." If two students have done equally good scholastic work, the decision will almost invariably be made in favor of the one who has also found time to indulge in some worthwhile outside activity...
...their surprise. Blue-suited for the TV cameras but wearing a red tie for old Socialism's sake, Party Chairman Erich Ollenhauer had himself one of the best days of his parliamentary career. Carefully endorsing the U.S. stand on Suez and Hungary as "prudent," he announced that Socialists favor honoring Germany's treaty obligations "including those of a military nature," i.e., in NATO. Abandoning another longtime Socialist position, the party now accepts a standing army...
...that China's Chou En-lai paid a visit to Cambodia last November. Sihanouk gave him the royal bed, and Chou blanketed the country with Communist propaganda. Cambodian newspapers began charging the U.S. with setting up military bases in the country. The local Chinese colony, seeing the royal favor conferred on Chou, began shifting its allegiance to Peking. Communist agents delivered money and mortars to Mekong River pirates raiding the borders of neighboring Laos and South Viet Nam. But perhaps Sihanouk's biggest mistake was to permit, in his onetime 100% Sihanouk Parliament, an opposition of so-called...
...ideas." Packed with ideas, Po Prostu has battled successfully for new youth organizations free of domination by "tired-out" party hacks, attacked Stalinist "reactionaries," urged sweeping reforms in agricultural policy (later adopted in large part by Party Secretary Gomulka) that include virtual liquidation of Russian-type collective farming in favor of new incentives for independent farmers...