Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South. Back in Washington, the President measured his work load against a sudden desire to get into warm country, found the balance in favor of a long weekend vacation. With the special messages on education ($1 billion over four years to step up U.S. education in the satellite age) and on reciprocal trade (see Foreign Trade) dispatched to Congress, the only big hurdle was a Friday-morning breakfast speech to the Republican national committeemen. Taking the hurdle in stride, the President got off the kind of no-clichés-barred political pep talk GOPoliticians wish he had delivered...
...seat of his pants and the toes of his boots. "If a horse has a bad leg I change the stride in the warmup so's the horse will put his weight on both legs. Even if the leg hurts, you can't pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering him. Maybe the girth might not be set right, and you have to adjust it. Sometimes I make my inside stirrup a notch or two shorter than the other...
...born of conspiracy and violence, sired by socialists and nurtured by the general treasury of the U.A.W.-C.I.O. This is the pattern of political conquest. This is the pattern of men whose conscienceless use of violence and money to achieve political power belies the soothing, well-worded statements in favor of democratic processes which they produce, at regular intervals, for public consumption...
...made little difference that the chapter of the American Association of University Professors at Albany state teachers college and the university senate endorsed the report. The trustees not only reprimanded Carlson for releasing it; they seemed to hold him personally responsible for the news stories that appeared in his favor. By that time there was little doubt that Carlson's days were numbered...
...like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade." A famed British barrister (Charles Laughton) is referring to his feckless client (Tyrone Power). Indicted for the murder of a wealthy widow, the fellow faces a trial in which all the evidence-a will too timely altered in his favor, a maid who places him in the house on the night of the murder-is disastrously against him. His only hope is the testimony of his wife (Marlene Dietrich). But on the witness stand the wife declares that in the first place she is not his wife, and in the second...