Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These famed couplets, to the certain knowledge of men of wide ocular experience, are as misleading as most generalizations. It has now been scientifically indicated that men definitely prefer girls, as well as men, who wear glasses...
Personally, I feel that the question of swinging military marches is a question for commanding officers to settle. Do they want their armies to march with military bearing, to fine inspiring rhythm-or do they prefer them to "jitterbug" their way along...
...troops have spoken their minds to U.S. war correspondents. The sum of their abrupt observations has been that they have lost faith in the veracity of U.S. radio and in the U.S. press. In sectors where Britain's BBC can be heard, U.S. soldiers in general prefer its plain, unvarnished news commentaries to the high-pressure American product...
Soldiers, after all, are just ordinary American citizens in uniform. It's not giving away any military secrets to say that most of us . . . still prefer the sports section and the comics. Only three or four out of a company get TIME or any other periodical on current events. . . . Friends of mine in other camps bear me out that soldiers do little thinking about world affairs...
...pall was cast over a considerable portion of the class which arrived clad in Khaki when the categorical imperative was delivered decreeing the wearing of the gray. Most of this suffering minority would prefer that the warships be painted light brown...