Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Changing Currents. With such a plurality, many a candidate would sit back on his fat margin, trusting to God, motherhood and still squabbling Republicans to keep him out of trouble. Brown knew better than anyone that post-primary factors would still be working in his favor, e.g., on the November ballot will be a proposition to take tax exemptions away from Roman Catholic and other privately endowed schools; with a huge Catholic vote expected against that proposition, Catholic Brown can only be a beneficiary...
...twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced that it had surveyed Britons on the desirability of restriction. The results: 79.1% in favor of restrictions, only 14.2% opposed...
...seven most influential ministers, their average age 50, their average congregation 2,800. Most of them were privately for integration but justified their public silence on the subject on the ground that their duty was to hold the church together. The rest were "passives"-older men who favor integration but have a prudent eye cocked on retirement. Their specialty, said Psychologist Pettigrew, was praying for guidance, which is "how to say something without being heard...
...have heard," Eaton told the Premier, "the Soviet impression that American industry is in favor of war so that war orders will continue to flow. Speaking solely as a capitalist, we industrialists are not at all happy about spending $40 billion a year for implements of war that, if they had to be used, would mean the destruction of all our property, and our annihilation at the same time. Don't forget that this arms race places a crushing burden of taxation on industry." Khrushchev understood, "because of the expense to us of our own defense effort," but said...
...book is called The Sorrows of Gin. Amy, a grave sub-teen-ager senses vaguely that the border between heavy social drinking and semi-alcoholism is a thin line over which her parents keep falling. A cook gives the youngster the idea that she would be doing everyone a favor by pouring an occasional bottle of liquor down the drain. This policy reaches a hilarious climax one night when Amy's father barks at a prim, sleep-dazed old lady babysitter: "You must be stinking, Mrs. Henlein . . . You drank a full quart of gin." When his little girl tries...