Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days are long past when German opinion was hostile to remilitarization: according to a poll, 73% of West Germans favor a German share in Europe's defense. Also disappearing are some of the limitations on German armament manufacturing...
...pleasant, but he became an outspoken advocate of the Army's Jupiter-C, whose high-speed stages had been designed by Pickering's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I made rather a pest of myself around Washington about Jupiter." he admits. But the Pentagon shunted Jupiter aside in favor of the Navy's Vanguard...
Though refusing to favor any candidate for the Democratic nomination, Butler said he thought that Adlai Stevenson would not refuse nomination, were it offered to him. He stated, however, that while many party members seem to favor Stevenson, "most of the professionals are suspicious of a two-time loser...
...Although the proposal is certainly worth exploration, it is too early to commit ourselves definitely," commented Frederic G. Fassett, Jr., Dean of Residence at M.I.T. The Off Campus Housing Bureau, which operates a listing service of available housing for Tech students, will not give up its functions in favor of a central agency until the new group can prove its merit, he explained...
...most distinctive characteristic--the parallel chordal progressions and the contrary motion of mirroring lines shows the same concern for pattern that characterizes baroque music. His counterpoint is at times almost indistinguishable from late baroque, especially in his formal fugues, and he avoids the unusual intervals of contemporary music in favor of more traditional linear movement...