Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as mixed and mixed up was the first reaction of the outside world. The British and French governments publicly hailed the new plan. The Arab world was divided: the Baghdad Pact nations in favor and the extreme Nasser nationalists against. "We reject most categorically the theory of a vacuum," said Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdullah Rimawy...
Gaitskell concluded his lecture by discussing possibilities for closer European unity, saying that Britain should favor some closer ties with the Continent so long as they do not interfere with her commitments to the Commonwealth, her more liberal colonial policy, and her "special relationship with the United States...
...Committee on Educational Policy voted last month in favor of the exam-typing experiment and indicated that it could go into effect for a few days during the midyear exam period...
...fanatic Kun nationalized all estates of more than 100 acres, abolished servants, ordered all jewelry seized, and decreed that a man could own no more than two suits, four shirts and four pairs of socks. Kun's strong-arm methods and inflationary money found no favor with the peasants, who boycotted the markets. Meanwhile, Hungary's military and aristocracy were rallying to another banner, that of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, a former naval aide to the Emperor Franz Josef and a naval hero in World War I. Horthy organized a counterrevolution to oust Kun, and Kun was forced...
...booming U.S. shipbuilding industry on the ground that it would amount to Government interference in a civilian-market shortage. That meant that shipbuilders, who are getting only 40% of the steel they need, will have to fight for a place in line, and few suppliers are likely to favor the feast-or-famine shipyards over such big, steady customers as automakers and the heavy-construction industry...