Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comment: "If Europe is to be reorganized as a federated Commonwealth . . . [perhaps] the present greater Germany should be disintegrated into several states . . . [even though the Germans] might prefer, through maintaining themselves as a single state, to dominate the Union...
Despite his calm reception of the news, Colonel Phinizy was later heard to mutter into a glass of "Mah Confederate ancestry calls but within me sub Ab prefer mah Sheridans twenty miles away...
Detached and observant, he would prefer to spend all out-of-lab days at his farm in Chocorua, New Hampshire, with his wife, six year old son, five year old daughter, and fishing pole, than at any amusement which the city can offer. There he can putter around in his garden, fix the stone wall, or experiment in transplanting some esoteric kind of flower. As an old friend remarked, "He certainly can make an old azalia bloom...
...punch-bowl that has refreshed celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve a new arsenic-laden punch to the leading murderesses and their accomplices in "Arsenic and Old Lace" at 4 o'clock this Friday in the Bow Street Sanctum. Guests who prefer elderberry wine must bring their...
...concupiscence, he was driven to religion. "I do not care to see the sex," he said later, "except shut up and curtained from sight, like so many mysteries not to be regarded save with a kind of horror." As a Capuchin, his "Spartan taste for the uncomfortable," made him prefer to pray standing, barefoot, on the stone floor. When he became sleepy and tired, he stood...