Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regrettable that the Senators are expending so much effort in an investigation that so far has only confirmed the old suspicion that gentlemen prefer blondes. During the war the relations of government and business were so extensive, the number of contracts so vast, that there are bound to be numerous dark corners that need to be looked into, plenty of shady deals that could not bear the light of day. The committee could do the country a real service by uncovering them. But this particular investigation has its own merits from the point of view of the Republicans...
...Federal Board of Geographic Names broke the spell of a muggy July day with an ice-cold footnote to history: Franklin Roosevelt had once declined the honor of having an Antarctic sea named for him. The President had informed the board that he would much prefer "a smoking volcano" to a frozen ocean. The board informed the President that it was fresh out of smoking volcanoes...
From Paris, Painter-Photographer Man Ray, Philadelphia's gift to surrealism, looked back at Philadelphia and said: "I prefer the sadness of Paris to all the joys of the United States." Then he adjusted the leather shoestring that served him as a tie and, looking back from 57 on his "lost generation," concluded: "The greatest of life's adventures lie in normalcy and well-being...
...Prefer not to answer this question. A writer has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer...
...food prices (see Commodities) may drop as much as 15% by harvest time next year. Along with this far-fetched hope, Francis had a new word for the economic drop which he expected by year's end. It will not be "a depression or even a recession. I prefer to call it a 'corrective,' and a fairly mild one at that...