Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Church and state are separate powers in the Mennonite credo, but the brethren prefer to give the state as wide a berth as possible. Their tightly knit, theocratic little communities assiduously care for their own-and just as assiduously administer their own brand of law. Last week Mennonite law clashed resoundingly with the harsher realities of the law of the land...
...that they ignore a profound shift in U.S. living and shopping habits. In an era of full employment, many husbands and wives both hold jobs, find it impractical to shop on weekdays. Moreover, merchants who try to solve .the problem by keeping late weekday hours report that most customers prefer to shop (and invariably spend more) on Sunday, when they can take their time and bring the family. With the exodus to the suburbs and the growth of one-stop shopping centers (TIME, Oct. 15) in outlying areas, families have become accustomed to shopping by car. Says a Cleveland housewife...
...every ten U.S. citizens is hard of hearing to some degree, doctors estimate. At least 4,000,000 have a disability severe enough to call for medical attention. But 3,000,000 of these do not seek it, prefer to go on cocking their heads, cupping their hands behind their ears and trying to lipread. Even those who go to a doctor are not assured of the best help; across the U.S. there are few speech-and-hearing centers where a patient can be rigorously examined for correctable causes of deafness (e.g., emotional factors or unsuspected infection). Many doctors with...
During the years that followed, many a former German in the land of General Bolle came to prefer his benevolent rule to that of the fatherland. But great nations must follow their own great destinies regardless of personal preferences, and last week, with the scratch of a pen in Brussels, the kingdom of General Bolle was signed out of existence...
...teachers would vote on desegration in a secret ballot, only 23.8 percent said they would vote for it. Furthermore, 80 percent said that with integration there would be new ways to stop equality in pay and other privileges. The group was evenly divided on whether or not they would prefer to work in a desegregated system...