Word: favored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touch or emotion-but it has to be his own decision. He has a duty to look long, learn and then judge, to like or not to like. He may make hideous mistakes. That is his risk-too few people take it-and better than abdicating personal reaction in favor of fashionable theory. For time, as today's uncertain men agree, is the only final judge; and the live viewer with his feet aching is the first voter in a poll whose results he may never know...
...India from widespread famine by arranging for special shipments of U.S. grain, many Indian leftists denounced her for relying too heavily on the Americans for help. Her attempts to free the country from crippling state controls have brought charges that she is abandoning the socialism of her father in favor of capitalism...
...reason for Johnson's foot-dragging about the SST is political: he is having trouble with liberal Democratic Senators who fear that the nation's antipoverty program will suffer cutbacks in favor of any spending for the B-2707. Seeking a $200 million supplemental appropriation for SST design work last August, the White House anticipated routine approval. Instead, Wisconsin's William Proxmire led an attack on the project, damned it as "a jet-set frill," finally wound up on the short end of a vote more narrow than anyone expected. Voting with Proxmire, among others, were both...
They proposed scrapping the present deferment system in favor of some form of lottery -- "a less objectionable method of selecting those who will serve...
...bother to remove), that he lived mostly in London but traveled widely, that he was married, that he occasionally appeared at dinner parties where titled people were present, that he was rich enough to spend 20 golden sovereigns (today's equivalent: about $350) for a woman's favor. He mentions friends only if they went to the same brothel, and his wife only as "that woman" - a hazard to be circumvented. Sympathy goes to that lady; it is to be hoped that she came to understand that if her husband did not love her, he did not love...