Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arctic poppy, shooting star, lupine and forget-me-not (Alaska's official flower). And now, after a long winter's self-imposed confinement, out lumbered the great Alaskan bears-and with them the sudden sparkle of high military brass from Washington, who, it just so happens, favor the bear season as the best time for Alaskan inspection trips...
...vote of 557 to 0, the National Assembly humbly approved a motion expressing gratitude to the army for services it had rendered France "under the flag of the Republic." This farce had been scarcely played out when the Deputies went on to vote 473 to 93 in favor of giving Pflimlin special powers in Algeria-powers which Pflimlin blandly promised to delegate to General Raoul Salan, commander of the rebellious Algerian army...
...scientists used the work of Einstein and Bohr to develop Russia's atomic bomb, and the Soviet began turning out calculators as fast as it could. Physicist Peter Kapitsa, who was placed under arrest for refusing to work on the atom bomb, is now back in favor and heads a research institute...
...knows whether this fall's showdown will be fought by lawyers or rednecked mobs. The cities affected are not truly Deep-South. Arlington has only 6.8% Negroes in its school system; its citizens, if not in favor of integration, at least want to keep the schools open. Charlottesville is the moderate-minded home of the University of Virginia. But each community has a possible source of violence: the few dozen "Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties," a kind of dandied-up White Citizens' Council...
...operator in the world, Isbrandtsen has fought governments around the globe in the name of freedom of the seas, has battled fellow shippers to establish free rates. Last week, after a ten-year battle, Isbrandtsen recorded the most important victory in its log book. Ruling in Isbrandtsen's favor, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the rate-setting practices of the international shipping conferences-voluntary groups of U.S. and foreign lines-thus opening the way for a flurry of price-cutting...