Word: preferable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Williams said yesterday that he would prefer to hold a hearing at the end of June, rather than during the fall. Because the bus driver, Geoffrey J. McQuilken '91, will be in Cambridge over the summer, Williams said he believed there would be enough evidence to prove his side of the case...
...tourists," who just drive around. Quartzsite is not the only winter oasis that attracts such migrants. According to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association, some half a million Americans go south each winter in motor homes, most to established cities in Florida, Texas and Arizona. Quartzsite is for those who prefer to rough...
...would think that most seniors would prefer to forget "YMCA," not just because it epitomizes the worst musical excesses of the disco era, but also because it evokes memories of roller rinks where we, as prepubescent skaters trying to form the letter C in "YMCA," would invariably lose our balance and careen into each other or the wall...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Gerneralities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...such loneliness preferable to the enforced communities of our forebears? Larkin does not pretend to know, or say. Instead, his poems address the selves that most people prefer to keep hidden during works and days: the nagging voice that wonders whether one choice was worth an infinity of losses. Impossible to answer; impossible, while reading Larkin or after, to forget...