Word: favors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claims about soon catching up with the U.S. in industrial and agricultural production as mere window dressing. In his more private moments, Khrushchev was portrayed as realizing that any such parity will be a long time in coming, can only be achieved by cutting down on military projects in favor of consumer efforts...
...martini consists only of well-chilled gin and vermouth, served in a stemmed glass. Among them, the argument is about the proportion of gin to vermouth. Recipes range from 3 to 1 all the way to a good dry 14 to 1, with the trend strongly in favor of more gin and less vermouth. Riding this trend, the House of Schenley last week was busily promoting the driest martini so far. Called the "Naked Martini," it is simply a straight gin, cut to 80 proof to make it taste a little less fiery than the usual 86-to-94-proof...
...description of the Festival in limited space must partially involve the Communist technique of presenting issues in Vienna: oversimplification. One surprising aspect of this was the utilization of "Fascism." The Communists use the label of "Fascism" to condemn anything they oppose, and fascist techniques to foster what they favor. A fervent Arab communist would claim that anyone in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a fascist, while a more educated Czech communist would admit the fascists were "less than 10 per cent," but reach the same conclusion by the subtle historical error of giving them credit "as the elite...
...critical basic problems about the future of Berlin or Germany were even touched upon, much less settled. But the removal of the deadline did help gain time, and both President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter feel strongly that time works in the West's favor. As Communist leaders are forced by their own internal conditions to pay more attention to consumer demands, as more of their citizens receive the mind-opening benefits of education, the likelihood becomes increasingly great for a liberalized system of government with which the West can live...
...understood that the Deans' office looks with favor on the plan, originated by the executive board this summer...