Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem: under rigid Civil Aeronautics Board safety regulations, a Super Constellation must not touch the ground unless it weighs no more than 110,000 Ibs.; to land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft and passengers. The procedure for reducing weight in emergency cases (although many a pilot would prefer to risk landing overloaded) is to dump surplus gasoline. To do this, the pilot must turn off all unnecessary radio and electrical equipment to lessen the hazards of electrical sparks, maintain air speed between 160 and 218 m.p.h. By turning on his fuel-dump levers, the emergency mechanism would lower...
When the milk-and-doughnuts man blows his silly little whistle, piercing my unhappy evening doldrums, all that occurs to me is what sort of refreshment I would vastly prefer to what he has to offer...
...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...
...partisan hero and boss of Yugoslavia. Tito was clapped on the back by Stalin, who said to him: "What a pity, my dear Walter [Tito's Comintern name]. You are now living and working in Belgrade instead of at my side here in Moscow. I would so much prefer to have a man like you here instead of these pigs here at my table, these weak spineless idiots I have around me all the time...
...summons of my wife to the telephone and a rude reprimand of her ... I have no intention to forget so easily that which is being done against me ... I ask you therefore that you weigh carefully whether you are agreeable to retracting your words and apologizing or whether you prefer the severance of relations between us." (Says the transcript at this point: Commotion in the hall...