Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, encysted worms can live in the muscles of bears, dogs, birds, cats, guinea pigs, monkeys, rabbits, horses and cattle. But they much prefer hogs, rats and men. Once in the muscles, the worms are there for the life of their victim. Most people who get trichinosis never know it. But one in a hundred has chills, fever, muscle pains until his system gets used to the invaders. Six in 10,000 die of damage to the heart after about a month of painful muscle spasms...
...majority of people like Saturday Evening Post covers. Some prefer Picasso. But almost everybody can usually agree on Pieter Bruegel, the 16th-Century painter of romping, roughhousing Flemish peasants...
...Since we have only a limited supply of dollars, what would the Americans prefer us to do with them, pay interest or buy goods? ... In the end it will be a question of which side can exert the strongest influence on Congress and the Administration...
...independence until 1938, is now consulted by the younger leaders on all major problems. Warn Palim: "We have had 350 years of promises from the Dutch: We want no more of them. If you want to start Armageddon again, send the Dutch back to Indonesia." Asked if he would prefer British colonial administration to Dutch rule, he retorted: "Would you rather be bitten by a cat than...
...lover, she thrilled a new generation as radical and feminist. Author Winwar, who is something of a radical and a feminist herself, sees in this change of emphasis George Sand's splendid transition from the life of self to the life of "common humanity." Most readers may prefer the calmer summing-up of Novelist Henry James: "There is something very liberal and universal in George Sand's genius, as well as very masculine; but our final impression of her always is that she is a woman, and a Frenchwoman...