Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American dead who are buried overseas [TIME, Dec. 17], wouldn't it be more to the point to spend the money helping America's underprivileged children, who are very much alive? I feel certain that, if the wishes of these dead were known, they would prefer to have their remains left where they are and to have the money spent for the ideal they died for-the future generation...
...combat divisions had been hampered by the shortage of replacements. Goldbricking was a threat to victory. Some of the G.I.s who landed in Lichfield as prisoners were suspected of trying to dodge combat. There was some reason for the Army to make Lichfield so tough that goldbrickers would prefer the front lines. Did that justify the kind of brutality that prosecution witnesses described...
...Digby, after six years, one son. Said she: 1) he had been rude to her in public; 2) had once walked out in the middle of the night; 3) had spent evenings at the officers' mess; 4) had told her he was "fed up"; 5) had "seemed to prefer a bachelor's existence." She got custody of five-year-old Winston...
...owned machines were being moved out only this week. Hunt will have to build up a production staff to install miles of conveyor belts in the bare building, move in acres of machine tools, erect long assembly lines. He has also taken on a job which some auto companies prefer to leave to outsiders, the highly specialized job of making his own bodies. It will be some two months before the huge presses to stamp them out are in the plant. Outside of this, Hunt will have to depend almost entirely on outside suppliers for his parts-motors from Continental...
...progress is agonizingly slow. Up to now, some paraplegics have spent most of their time fighting infections, undergoing surgery. Walking, if finally mastered, is a titanic effort of shoulder muscles - of braces weighing 15 lbs. which take 15 minutes to put on. Most of the patients prefer to stick to the wheelchair...