Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a reverse cordon sanitaire? The answers may be that:1) such a drastic action might endanger the U.S.S.R.'s relation with Britain and the U.S., and might even precipitate a war, which Russia would do anything to avoid; 2) the Russians know how to organize disorganized territories, prefer to let the small States run themselves in a stable (i.e., a proSoviet...
...carry out this policy, Russia may well prefer strong, popular-front nationalist governments based on the trade unions, but not revolutionary and not internationalist. Else they might then get together in larger units, turn against Russia...
...Testaments are almost equally popular. Of Bible readers 29% prefer the New; 26% prefer the Old. The other 45% like them both equally...
...Government survey showed that 91% of British women wear corsets or abdominal belts-or at least would like to. Wartime "utility" garments made of low-priority materials are a painful failure. One result: a "shocking" number of women prefer to use their coupons for outer clothing, wear no underclothes and sleep raw. Some individual comments on the wartime garments...
...There is not a single scientific work of any consequence written in the Afrikaans language. Today nearly all important works on science are being published in the United States-in English. ... If you prefer to confine your reading to Afrikaans, you needn't bother with science...