Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject to being cozened, flimflammed and taken into camp." More damaging yet, the Detroit News, long one of the Michigan Governor's strongest supporters, announced in a lead editorial that it can no longer back him for the G.O.P. nomination and suggested that Romney quit the race in favor of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a man "who knows what he believes...
...poll those people Irving in Viet Cong-dominated regions, the total represented 60% of South Viet Nam's voting-age population-surprisingly close to the 63% turnout of U.S. voters in the 1964 U.S. presidential election. By any measure, it was an impressive and meaningful ballot cast in favor of representative government. Though many of the voters went to the polls because the government urged them to, from crowded Saigon to remote hamlets it still required a courageous choice to defy the massive Viet Cong threats of reprisals...
...Karl König, West Berlin's Economics Minister. Like the other West German visitors, König could hardly hide his glee when Russian designers flocked to German displays. They sketched and photographed everything, from the wildest mod look to the more functional fashions that Russian women favor. "Even seamstresses couldn't believe how we put our coats and dresses together," said one West Berliner. "It was all I could do to keep them from tearing the garments apart to see how they were made." Buyers were more guardedly curious about Berlin displays of women...
...observer traveled with his own security guard. They covered the countryside, questioning candidates and citizens, satisfying themselves about the conduct of the campaign. In Binh Thuan province, for example, Whitney Young of the Urban League talked things over with Senatorial Candidate Nguyen Van Viet. "Does the province chief favor one candidate over another?" Young asked. "I think not," answered Viet. Governor Richard Hughes of New Jersey put the question even more bluntly: "Has it been a fair campaign?" Said Viet: "Fair, honest, with no interference...
...practice as essential to classroom decorum. Of 3,000 delegates at a National Head Teachers Conference this spring, only two voted against caning; only one delegate did so at a national conference of schoolmasters. And a Gallup poll showed that public protesters are still outnumbered by those who favor the cane and strap. When the new school term opens this fall, British buttocks again will burn...