Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rather than his military service, assures the typical veteran of a job. Most of those who end up in college or vocational training programs would probably have had the same opportunity without Viet Nam. It has been a nasty, inglorious war that most Americans did not understand and would prefer to forget. Of necessity, some of this negative feeling rubs off on the men who have fought valiantly in it. But for them, it is enough to be back in the real world...
...that presented little risk of embarrassing disruption, though a few student protesters did in fact stage a peaceful mini-demonstration. The President praised youth's quest for honesty in public and private life. He defended the right to peaceful dissent. But he came down hard on radicals who prefer coercion to persuasion and on faculty sympathizers who "should know better." Said Nixon: "It should be self-evident that this sort of self-righteous moral arrogance has no place in a free community. It denies the most fundamental of all the values we hold: respect for the rights of others...
Although there have been suggestions that the mission be called off, Rockefeller seems determined to continue with the third installment of his tour-visits to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay. By week's end Uruguay indicated that it, too, would like to cancel the visit but would prefer that the initiative come from Washington. The other three governments-all of them military regimes-are confident that they can welcome Rocky while keeping their militant activists in check. Even so, large U.S. Secret Service details were checking out local security conditions with the kind of minute attention to detail that...
...Saxbe and Gilligan did debate, for an hour, four days before the election. The debate was televised in full in most Ohio cities. Having watched it, I can understand why Mr. Gilligan and Mr. Geoghegan might prefer to forget...
...might argue that it must be serious, since it is forbidden. But I would prefer merely to say that it is serious because it is the major commitment of the best undergraduates at Harvard. No one can pretend to have a clear vision of what happened two weeks ago if he fails to realize that the brightest and most creative people at Harvard were in University Hall at 5 a.m. Thursday morning...