Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed services, which had the Navy pot-shotting at the Army (and vice versa) for over a year, seemed close to a more or less friendly settlement. The Army & Navy themselves had settled some disputed points, the President had resolved three of the knottiest: he had ruled in favor of a single defense department, three coequal branches, and a Marine Corps under the Navy (TIME, June 24). The one issue on which the Navy had continued to buck its Commander in Chief was his order that all land-based aviation (including anti-submarine patrol) be put under the proposed...
Many other Frenchmen felt the same way; 28% of them stayed away from the polls. A high abstention rate was expected to work in favor of the Communists, who do not stay home. Nevertheless, Foreign Minister and Provisional President Georges Bidault's Catholic Progressive M.R.P. made an amazingly good showing, and was about even with the Reds, who lost votes for the first time since liberation. The Socialists lost even more heavily than last time...
...guilty? Humanitarians and moralists have argued over such cases as Long's for years.* But in spite of the well-intentioned uproar in favor of euthanasia, no civilized country distinguishes in law between "mercy killing" and murder...
...belief of greying, sad-faced Robert Harold Scott, 57, is deep and abiding. Its single tenet: there is no God. For five years godless Robert Scott pestered San Francisco radio stations to let him air his atheism. Last week, more than three months after an FCC decision in his favor (TIME, Aug. 5), Station KQW gave him 30 minutes of Sunday morning time to rehash the arguments that have been the unbeliever's stock-in-trade for many a Christian year. Excerpts...
...police (who had disregarded complaints against the abbot) now investigated. They found public sentiment in favor of the lynching. Said a farmer: "I have very little opinion, but I think if the abbot had been a good man he would not have been killed. I think he must have been bad for the priests to kill...