Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same state: Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft and her former Governor John Bricker, who will take his seat in the Senate this week. In 1940 Bricker had stood aside and let the 50 votes of the Ohio delegation go to Taft. In 1944 Taft had returned the favor, and Bricker had won the vice-presidential nomination. Last week in Washington, Bob Taft let it be known that this time he wanted an early decision on "which or neither" would bow out this time...
...rode tiptoed to fame (and royal favor) as a ballet dancer. One night, when he was over 60, big-nosed, silken-bearded King Leopold II saw Cléo dance at the opera in Paris. He held up the show for half an hour while he talked to her in the lobby. Next day the town was buzzing...
...midwinter reunion, with a big log blazing on the fire. The Ski Dorm where they met this week was a Christmas present from the State of Vermont. Last summer all these boys & girls had been to Europe together - not on vacation, but to return a favor...
...Playwright Afinogenov was in disgrace in 1937, but returned to favor two years later. He was killed in the defense of Moscow in November...
...make Angel Rank a nice U.S. profit. But many far less creative people on both sides of the Atlantic are already worrying their heads full-time about what the elusive U.S. moviegoer wants. If Powell & Pressburger can leave box-office problems to someone else, they might do a special favor for themselves, for Mr. Rank, for Hollywood and for moviegoers everywhere, by just concentrating on making the best British movies they...