Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army, 3; Navy, 1. The four outstanding issues were closely linked with each service's individual fight for survival. Ex-artilleryman Truman decided three in favor of the Army. He proposed that...
...Young." If the Russians had hoped to find a puppet in Renner, they were sorely disappointed. A pure, anti-Communist Socialist, he has quietly boxed in all those left-wingers who might favor a merger with the Communists (for which Russia is pressing). Despite his age (76), Renner has taken a decisive hand in the business of his country. (Cracked one of his political opponents: "He is too young to be President...
...Russians have tried hard to fight their own and Communism's unpopularity: to gain music-loving Vienna's favor, they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past...
Ebbing sales gave circulation veterans no alarm. The country's 105,000 newsstands were crowded beyond reason anyway, and survival of the fittest might straighten things out by fall. That would clear the decks for a more exciting war: the coming fight for public favor between the fittest...
...managing, signing papers, paying bills. At 32, Joe Louis was a bit past his fighting prime but he had his strategy figured out: "If I boff him, Billy loses his head. When he loses his head, I got him." The fight odds were 13-to-5 in Louis' favor and never wavered when a millionaire Texas oilman bet $300,000 on Challenger Conn. The gamblers had seen Billy, the dancing master, outbox Joe for twelve rounds back in 1941, then fall from one murderous punch...