Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., some of the traveling reporters stood on the sidelines and slipped the college students headline-making questions. Prompted by a traveling reporter, a persistent student editor taxed Nixon about his failure to mention Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson in his speeches. Would Nixon favor the retention of Benson in the Eisenhower Administration, and why had he avoided mentioning Benson? Replied Nixon: "When I go into the state where a Cabinet Secretary lives, I then give him his commercial ... I mentioned Mr. Benson in Utah . . . The first part of the question I cannot properly answer...
...elephantiasis. Pills made out of the poison glands ground up and mixed with cheese were once prescribed for palsy and typhus; they also give a feeling of "ethereal delights." Rattlesnake oil was once a popular remedy, too, but both venom and oil have now fallen out of medical favor. The chief modern use for the venom is to immunize horses so their serum can be used to cure rattlesnake bites...
Frans Hals, father of 14 and no mean tosspot himself, attacked the canvas with all the enthusiasm of his age, disdaining preliminary sketches in favor of a bold, direct approach with brushes loaded with paint. In later ages, the elegant powdered peruke of the 18th century looked askance at Hals's clearly visible brush strokes. But French 19th Century Painter Edouard Manet grasped Hals's secret of laying colors side by side, used it for his own bold compositions and made the technique a cornerstone of French impressionism...
...technique is shown by his Portrait of a Woman (opposite), a new acquisition of the St. Louis City Art Museum. An outstanding example of Hals's last, or "black," period, it was painted about 1648, when Hals was nearly 70 and had modified his earlier bravura style in favor of a deeper maturity and more finely modeled values. Hals still gave the wealthy young housewife's finery its due, from dangling earrings to her triangular, diaphanous white fichu primly pinned with a golden ribbon bow. But in the modeling of the forehead, he has also suggested the very...
...impetus for this offensive upsurge must go first to Jordan, who had the courage to junk his conservative single-wing in favor of the more deceptive T-formation--thus allowing him to utilize his experienced backs more profitably...