Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the Allied victory in Europe had Francisco Franco seemed so confident and cocky. The bitter Bevin-Vishinsky debate at UNO offered new life to his Government. British Laborites expressed sympathy for the Spanish Republic, looked with favor upon the monarchy. But Britain's Government preferred Franco to a renewal of civil war. Fighting might result in a radical republic, an extension of Russia's influence into the western Mediterranean...
...being judged as an artist. His art, he explained, "is for the most part, as were also the great classical works, illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so intended. ... I ask then, Chicagoans, that you let the question of how 'good' these paintings are pass in favor of another question: 'How like are they to the things you know, to the experiences you have had in the America in which you live...
...years, Graves's column, "This Morning," had the Age-Herald's Page One, Column One spot. He was stoutly in favor of Southern chivalry, Birmingham-made steel, free enterprise, John Temple Graves II and segregation of Negroes. A round-faced, goggle-eyed Georgian of 53, Graves was editor of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal when in 1929 the Age-Herald's late Publisher Victor Hanson hired him away, for $75 a week, and made him a columnist...
...story of David, the spoiled shepherd poet who climbed into royal favor, betrayed King Saul and his people, took over the throne, ruled Israel in her march from primitivism to the brink of decadence, and declined among the dissensions, rapes, assassinations, and revolutionary plots of his children, then sought and found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist...
Radicals, Awake! In 1939 Saul D. Alinsky turned his back on a brilliant criminological career in favor of a life in the Jungle-the slums that lie back of Chicago's stockyards. It was his simple faith that if leaders of the fragmented sections of any U.S. community could be got to sit down together and talk or participate in common action, democracy would be reborn...