Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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California, most crucial of the state primaries, wrecked all Kefauver's chances and brought, less than two months later, his withdrawal in favor of Stevenson...
...hard to believe, folks in Massachusetts' Seventh Congressional District said, that Congressman Tom Lane was really in prison. Ask for a favor at his office in Lawrence, and his staff saw to it that the request got the same prompt, courteous attention it had in the past. Let there be a funeral or a wake in the Lawrence-Lynn area, and one of his aides was sure to attend, delicately dropping the word that he was there as Lane's personal representative. Even though he was serving a four-month term for evading $38,542 in income...
...National Guard, under the command of its adjutant general, a World War II captain named Joe W. Henry Jr., who now wears two stars, gave the newsmen little protection. At the Oliver Springs encounter, Henry denounced the photographers to curry favor with the mob. Guardsmen stood by while rioters roughed up newsmen and stole cameras...
...peasants' state and must serve the construction of socialism." In these blunt terms, the East German government defines the functions of the nation's "institutions of higher education." In practice, the definition means that East German universities bar the "nonproductive" (i.e., politically suspect), bourgeois "intelligent sia" in favor of the loyal sons and daughters of the "peasants' and workers' class...
...State William Jennings Bryan served grape juice at a state dinner in honor of retiring British Ambassador James Bryce. Next year, when Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels caused a national furor by outlawing hard liquor on naval ships and installations, outraged editorial writers and cartoonists did Welch's the favor of dubbing the U.S. fleet "the grape-juice Navy...