Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of votes. His loss was not a real defeat since in this context the incumbent had an overwhelming advantage. He was a resident of long standing and very well-known in the community. Also, it is primarily people beholden to the incumbent for a job or some other favor who vote in the primaries. This is especially true on a rainy day, and that June day it poured. Finally, the neighborhood was staunchly conservative and unlikely to view Lindsay-flavor Republicanism favorably. Therefore Lindsay workers carefully avoided mentioning the mayor; instead they asked voters to support "a dynamic ticket...
...composed of Kennedy, Javits, a Lindsay representative, some of the most prominent corporate chiefs in the city--Thomas Watson Jr. (I.B.M.), William Paley (CBS)--former Treasury Secy. Douglas Dillon, former Deputy Defense Secy. Roswell Gilpatrick, and a number of others perfectly wiling to do Kennedy or Javits a favor. D & S will supervise overall planning; members were picked who would have the contacts to persuade banks to give loans and convince businesses to move in, the expertise to help residents set up their own enterprises, and the political clout to see that the community gets what it wants...
...working up a suitable celebration fell to Director General of Tourism Luc Albert Foucard, who was appointed to his job shortly after he married Duvalier's daughter Nicole last December. To prove himself worthy-he and another Duvalier son-in-law are vying for the President's favor-Foucard pulled out all the stops...
...Oscarsson (the brother) tease you for 50-odd minutes. She's so beautiful, he's so wolfish, you expect that the wages of sin will be excitement. But Sjoman doesn't keep them on screen long enough to produce a stir. At the end he removes them completely in favor of a screaming baby. Leave early...
...they made it clear that they were strongly in favor of amending draft law so that people who object only to the war in Vietnam -- and not to war in general -- can be classified as conscientious objectors...