Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guard rather than the SS. As to his 1944 meeting with Hitler: "Purely a social call. If I went to England today, I would naturally like to call on King George." As a clincher, Kuhn cried: "You don't get justice in a German court," said he would prefer a U.S. court* "any time...
Bradley left no doubt that the Army would stand solidly behind the trimmed-down budget Harry Truman had sent to Congress. Though the Army had lost about $1 billion in the process, he said: ". . . I would much prefer to take some military risk rather than have to weather the dangers of an economic bust...
...ready to whisk the refugees northward through Miami. The smugglers' boats are mostly goletas-small, dirty fishing smacks and schooners used in the coconut and banana trade. Often, the goleta will rendezvous with a faster U.S. boat for the run to the Florida coast. Masters of bigger boats prefer to land their cargoes further up the coast, as far north as Norfolk, to elude the border patrol. Lately, light planes had entered the traffic, flown by ex-service pilots...
...Ernie Bevin's speeches, urging step-by-step progress. A British M.P. last week explained: "The French plan is an effort to pass on to some kind of European government the problems which the French government has so much trouble solving. Some call it 'escapism.' I prefer to call it the search for a short...
...will sit with the congregation until he "reabsorbs the atmosphere of the Church of England." Though he had little to say to the press, he admitted: "The reason I left the Catholic Church was because I grew to dislike the rigidity of the Roman Catholic faith; I prefer the broader outlook of the Church of England...