Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They rushed on to the Turkish Embassy, and waved the crescent & star beside those other two fine flags. It was the Turkish Republic's 17th birthday, and they had heard that in Ankara the paper Ulus had said: "We prefer the hell of war to a dishonorable peace." Just like the stubborn Turks, they said...
...friend of many a New Deal bigwig, including Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Samuel Grafton writes I'd Rather Be Right, a New Dealing column in the New York Post. Both their books are important because they talk out loud in public about hopes that most New Dealers prefer to talk about only among New Dealers. Both are, whether the authors know it or not, handbooks of revolution. Both propose to have their radical changes take place within the democratic system. Both forget that, once begun, social revolutions have no brakes but total exhaustion or weakness from loss...
...prefer being murdered to murdering," said Flora Robson, artful and fiendish poisoner in "Ladies in Retirement," as she balanced a cup of tea and chatted causally in the Lowell House Common Room yesterday...
Most surgeons prefer to cut out the gall bladder with the stones because a sack, once diseased, usually becomes inflamed again. The operation is not difficult, and since the gall bladder is not an essential organ (horses have none), a patient need only follow a low-fat diet to stay healthy...
...whether Bud Freeman played worse trips in 1929 than he does today. I like old jazz as much as the next guy. In fact, I might go so far as to say that some of my best friends are jazz records. I happen to prefer the more recent stuff, but I've burned gallons of midnight oil listening to Louie and Bessie Smith. All I'm asking from a lot of critics is that they try to be a little more fair in their judgments. They would do well to listen to Woody Herman and Charlie Barnet, before they dismiss...