Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find a way out for Kashmir, Correspondent Lubar conducted an informal poll by asking a Kashmiri if he knew what Pakistan was. He answered: "The place that belongs to Jinnah." Did he know what India was? "Yes, the place that belongs to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru." Which did he prefer? "The one who gives me most help...
...Milles' favorite figure is that of an old hermit philosopher, squatting like a gnome, as the sculptor had known him 50 years ago. "He had been a teacher at some university," says Milles. "But he preferred to live where people didn't know so much, and were not so conceited." Just before he died, the philosopher had poisoned his two dogs, so that they would always be with him. "So," says Milles, "I represent him sitting with his dogs, in the first moment when he arrives in the new world, and they are all united...
...with setting educational policies. Its main job is compiling bales of statistics. It also supervises the spending of federal funds by land-grant colleges and vocational schools, and sponsors an interminable round of education conferences. Its uniformly dull publications tread warily between the controversies. Most U.S. educators prefer it that...
...Kokoschka, who thinks little of Picasso, was still as self-assured as ever. "Though I am no great painter," he said last week in Venice, "I prefer my own pictures to any other. Art is dying; I am its oxygen. When Kokoschka is finished, true art will be finished...
General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...