Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Considering the autocratic nature of the Arab states ruled by Abdullah and his partners in perfidy, the obvious democratic nature of Israel, the still-standing decision of the United Nations in favor of partition, the undisguised aggression of the Arab states into Palestine, and TIME's espousal of democratic causes and hatred of aggressors, don't you think a cover featuring the President of the new democratic state of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, would have been more fitting...
...Barked John Taber: "The architects of this world-wide relief program have no definite plan." Stubbornly ignoring the months of conferences and hearings, the volumes of reports, and the testimony of such authorities as ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman and Under Secretary of State Bob Lovett, he protested that evidence in favor of the program was just "the result of a series of after-dinner conversations in which Administration economists let their imaginations run wild...
...Lords rejected the abolition bill, 181 to 28, sent it back to Commons for reconsideration. For once, the Lords and public opinion were in line. A public-opinion poll showed a large majority of Britons in favor of keeping capital punishment...
...exchanged a pseudo-legal and semi-respectable repression that is, if anything, more severe. University students and professors with political ideas are no longer pushed around by police; all troublesome ones have been removed, and a new law permits political opinion and activity-so long as it is in favor of the regime. Newspapers which thundered against Castillo's decrees have with but one exception been silenced by Perón's subsidies and newsprint restrictions ; and even great La Prensa is visibly weakening. Recently the government decreed that either Argentines or foreigners may be jailed for such...
Such tasty bait as this, Wall Streeters hoped, would sooner or later lure in the public. They had some pious arguments in favor of it: a big bull market, for one thing, would not only fatten brokers' commissions, but would permit industry to raise some of the capital, through stock issues, that it badly needs for expansion. One simple recipe, favored by both Schram and Truslow to attract more investors: cut margins...