Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers are uneasy about the surplus mess, but they are so wary of drastic measures to cope with it that most farmers "prefer to drift along with things as they are," bad as they are. "I don't like farming for the Government," admitted a troubled Minnesota wheat farmer. "I know it's wrong. But it's not for me to figure out what should be done. I have four children to take care of. As long as the Government pays for it, I'll raise as much wheat as I can." The farmers, concluded Lubell...
...this is my answer to him. We do not say that your grandchildren will live under capitalism. We prefer our system. But the very essence of our belief is that we do not and that we will not try to impose our system on anybody else. We believe that you and all other peoples on this earth should have the right to choose the kind of economic or political system that best fits your particular problems, and to do that without any foreign intervention...
...hustles ads and copy, cribs items from the old newspapers arriving by train, cuts by hand the pothook stencils of the Urdu script. Then he makes the rounds of Quetta's three print shops, pursuing the lowest print rate of the week. Advertisers are rare, since Quettan merchants prefer to do all their pitching over a hookah at the bazaar, so the publisher must seek revenue from other sources. From Baluchistan's maliks (tribal chieftains), the shrewd editor can usually wangle 100 rupees ($21) for a favorable story, e.g., a puff with picture of a chieftain...
...company's success has enabled its two unlikely partners to go their separate ways in style. Klaus, the son of former (1913) World Middleweight Boxing Champion Frank Klaus, spends his leisure hours water skiing and practicing ballet with his wife and two daughters (his two sons prefer other sports). Reiner likes to battle constituted authority, from the Defense Department to the Los Angeles city fathers. He employs a full staff of lawyers to aid him in his causes. His pet project: because he deplores the state of education in public schools, he recently spent $300,000 to build...
...would prefer, Colonel Wayne informs her, the pleasure of her company during the rest of the raid. So off they all go, plodding along at a pace that is unhistoric as well as uncinematic, to the climactic engagement-in which Colonel Wayne is decisively defeated...