Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, ill with influenza, obviously out of favor with the new master of the Kremlin, Palmiro Togliatti, 65, was sitting out the campaign for Italy's general elections, coming late this month. Luigi Longo, wartime Red partisan organizer, postwar street fighter and a recent visitor to the Kremlin, has taken over as acting party chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues...
Commenting on the recent opening of Memorial Church to people of all faiths, Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy, stated, "The move was a gesture in favor of religion only in the sense that polygamy is a gesture in favor of romantic love...
Laborite Harold Wilson called it "a mouse of a budget," but Labor was not too anxious to show itself in favor of inflation, for if threatened nationwide strikes occur soon, Labor stands to lose politically by them. In a TV broadcast, Heathcoat Amory agreed that to Britons his poor-mouth talk, when gold and sterling reserves had risen a billion dollars in six months, must seem "tiresomely cautious." But precisely because he did not bow to political pressures, the budget increased the new Chancellor's reputation. "It would be folly," said Harold Macmillan, "to be an island of inflation...
...last week to win a smashing electoral victory at the polls for Strijdom: his Nationalists increased their control of the House of Assembly to 103 of the 163 seats though their popular victory was by no means so decisive since they benefit from 50-year-old electoral laws which favor the hinterland. The United Party, which is as segregationist as Strijdom but talks of "white leadership with justice," increased its representation by one, to 53, but its party leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, lost his gerrymandered seat to a Nationalist candidate. Minor political groupings, such as Novelist Alan...
Debating the topic "Resolved: That requirement of membership in a labor union as a condition of employment should be made illegal," Bynum and Kincaid lost to the same Northwestern team they had defeated earlier in the competition. The balloting in the final round was 4 to 3 in favor of North-western...