Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be said in her favor that she got better as she went along, except for a sag in the last scene. But like Edgerton's, her part has a great deal of fun in it; not enough came across. When she was alone on the stage with Kulukundis, there were times when only the happy few who had seen the play elsewhere could have suspected that the lines were supposed to be funny...
...council. Angie's message: in the three hours before the meeting she and her friends polled 160 of the school's 635 students on the integration question in its bluntest form ("Should Negro students attend Van Buren High School?"). Their tally: 45 opposed, 30 undecided, 85 in favor...
...crest of the wave, headed for blind disaster on some still-distant shore? One Democrat who thinks so is Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., brain-truster and speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson through two campaigns. Modern Democratic bosses are deliberately ignoring a treasure of intellectual-liberal candidates in favor of "mediocre party hacks," Schlesinger writes in the New Republic. Case in point: Tammany's passing over of onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter in New York to hand the U.S. Senate nomination to District Attorney Frank Hogan, who "has hardly voiced a public thought...
...index of 425 industrial stocks was close to a record at 52.06, only a shade under the alltime high of 52.18. On the other hand, the New York Times index, at 556.67, still had a good way to go to its 590.96. Moreover, the averages are heavily weighted in favor of leading blue chips, most of which have risen in the bull market. Thus they do not show that many another stock has declined. Some 40% of all stocks that were listed on the exchange in 1946-especially airlines, textiles and railroad equipment-are actually lower now than their...
...Sarah's grandeur reached perfection in the years that followed her fall from favor. "That B.B.B.B. old B.* the Duchess of Marlbh" (as the architect of Blenheim Palace, Sir John Vanbrugh, described her) outlived not only her husband, but Anne, Anne's successor (George I) and most of her own children. Widowed at 62, she rejected offers of marriage from an earl and from the proud Duke of Somerset. Marlborough had loved her passionately (tradition has it that on coming home from the wars, he would "pleasure" her even before he had taken off his boots), and Sarah...