Word: favours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produced statistics that showed that 63 percent of a nationwide poll were in favour of more projects like the Government owned and operated Tennessee valley Authority. But 80 percent were against them when they were termed "socialistic." Maass asserted that private electric companies were using the "Socialism" scare to indoctrinate the public against beneficial public power and development projects...
...Grace & Favour. Author Crawford has but two moments of rashness in the entire book: 1) she suggests that the royal family did not entirely approve of Mrs. Simpson; 2) she reports that Queen Victoria's bedroom chinaware was emblazoned with the letters...
Such loyal discretion and faithful service deserve their reward, and Crawfie has gotten it. She and her husband, whom she wed in 1947, now have free lodging in one of the King's Grace and Favour Houses, royal properties which the King traditionally may turn over on a lifetime lease to deserving subjects...