Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second in importance only to the Security Council was the Economic and Social Council. Seventeen of the 18 seats were filled. For the last seat neither U.S.-backed New Zealand nor Russia-backed Yugoslavia gained the necessary two-thirds vote. New Zealand broke the jam by withdrawing in favor of Yugoslavia...
Angels Who Drink Too Much Sirs: A number of letters and reports indicting the behavior of American troops in occupied countries-not a few of them signed by chivalric G.I.s-have been published in your periodical, without fear or favor. It would be unfair to deny the stand to a witness for the defense...
...that milled into the Corso Umberto I were many who had foregone New Year's festivities in favor of a new shirt or a pair of cotton drawers. Carabinieri, forming a half hedgehog around the store, issued numbered admission tickets. Vulturous black marketeers swooped on the scene to hawk phony tickets at $8 apiece...
...victory, aided the Jews, consequently kept themselves in constant hot water with the Nazis. In this tough nucleus Barth saw hope for the rebirth of German Christianity. The new, united Evangelical Church, formed last August at the Treysa conference, was a good beginning. But Calvinist Barth looked with less favor on those conservative churchmen who were more interested in getting back to the good old pre-Hitler days by safeguarding hierarchical arrangements and hoary institutions. German churches, he said, could retain their freedom in the new social democracy not by turning back to the past, but by seeking to safeguard...
...economic reasons why England is attempting to rival Hollywood for both British and U.S. markets. As Robert John Graham Boothby, Conservative Member of Parliament, puts it: "If I have to choose between Bogart and bacon, I am afraid that the decision must, for the time being, be in favor of bacon...