Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freehling, too, was in favor of giving Radcliffe members more responsibility...
Pending that review, the U.S. does not plan 1) any "dollars-be-damned" crash program in missile development, 2) any change from the present Army, Navy, Air Force development program in favor of a Manhattan Project sort of effort, or 3) any quick decision between the Air Force Thor and the Army Jupiter as the U.S. intermediate-range missile. At first, the McElroy review will aim at unclogging existing bottlenecks; e.g., almost certain to go is the curb on overtime pay at missile centers. At a subsequent Cabinet meeting the decision was made to unloose purse strings on rocket work...
...months ago, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn showed up at Independence, Mo. to help Harry Truman dedicate his museum (TIME, July 15). Last week at Bonham, Texas Harry returned the favor. Sam's museum, a $500,000 Greek-temple affair in white marble, houses gavels, gimcracks and the nation's most complete private collection of books about Congress-including records of all sessions since the first Continental Congress. On hand for the museum-warming was the most complete collection of Texas big shots seen in recent years: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary...
...must go to melt on impact with a wall of a given temperature. Though he sometimes postpones the more difficult questions, he usually finds something to say. "Why, honey," he told a girl who wanted to know about Tom Paine's Common Sense, "that was a pamphlet in favor of the American Revolution. It was one of those things that started the old ball rolling to where we are right...
...remaining 24 organizations favor the admission of women, and 16 of them would agree to change their names if doing so is a prerequisite for Radcliffe membership. Seventeen of the clubs would maintain an Annex representation on their executive boards if necessary...