Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate, Mrs. Roosevelt was clearly ahead on points. The subject that provoked the controversy, the cardinal's loss of temper, and her own adroit mode of expression were all in her favor until she gave way to some quiet gloating in her column about the favorable response in her mailbag. Surely, she must have realized that a considerable proportion of this response came from people afflicted with the fault which had been attributed to her and which she was in the process of disowning...
...short, no change. What seemed to have been forgotten by Stalin and Gromyko (and United Nations World which devotes itself to breathless inside stories about U.S.-Russian relations) was that there was no longer a seller's market for Russian favor...
Merchant-builders increasingly favor the modern touches-at least on the inside where they won't glaringly show. But the man who wants a house to fit his family as well as the age he lives in still has good reason for building...
...freshman Senator from New York, who was denied a seat on the potent Foreign Relations Committee because of seniority, brought his formidable knowledge of world affairs to bear in a consolation post-the District of Columbia Committee, which runs the city of Washington. "I am generally," said Dulles, "in favor of killing off the starlings. They are an importation from Europe that is not good...
Hard pressed by the book slump, Haldeman-Julius had decided to junk his familiar, plain format in favor of a new look. From his printing house in Girard, Kans. (pop. 2,500), he will continue to fill mail orders for everything from Practical Masonry (No. 1,232) to Margaret Sanger's What Every Girl Should Know (No. 14). But from now on, the Blue Books will be dressed up in lively, illustrated jackets in every color except blue...