Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prefer to date college girls? working girls debutantes?" brought these answers among others: "When they go out with me, they're all working girls...How do you classify Yale undergraduates...
Above all, Commandomen must learn to kill. They prefer to kill quietly. A favorite Commando weapon is a long, straight knife, both edges sharpened razor-keen, carried in a trouser sheath. Some have metal kneecaps, fitted with metal spikes, to be driven into enemy crotches and spines. They can devise their own daggers, clubs, knives. They know the uses of spiked brass knuckles. All must know a Commando equivalent of jiujitsu. Fiercely, without quarter, they battle each other in practice combat, often break each other's bones: a few nights before the St. Nazaire raid one officer...
...opening session yesterday, Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Thompson, author of the military treatise "Modern Battles," called for "less sugar-coating around our military reports." He emphasized that he did not mean the reports were false, but rather that their presentation was poor. "The great American public could and would prefer to take a stronger diet of military reports that contained more down to the earth tactical stuff," he declared...
...TIME, the only reason nearly 700,000 Illinois Republicans voted for Senator Brooks is because they prefer an honest, straightforward American to a shirttail-riding, "where-he-leads-I'll-follow," rubber-stamp type of candidate. After all Illinois has an open primary...
Incision Hoarding? In some parts of the country surgeons have been kept busy performing operations that patients wanted done before their doctors were called up. In addition to such forehanded patients who will soon not be able to be treated by the physicians they prefer, there are others-in booming defense areas and towns stripped of doctors by the draft-who even now find it difficult to get any kind of medical attention...