Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little danger of a successful invasion of the U. S., if the country were protected by 10,000 modern planes in service, with another 10,000 replacements and trainer planes in reserve. The Colonel believed that the Western Hemisphere could be economically independent. As for his sympathies: "I prefer to see neither side win. I prefer a negotiated peace." On aid to Britain: "Our aid is not going to be sufficient and I believe we have encouraged a war in Europe that is not going to be successful...
...feeling that the Indian situation was being mishandled, decided to go to India on an unofficial "goodwill mission." The mission's expenses were to be borne by private donations. When the mission's organization approached one prospective Indian donor by cable, he cabled this reply to London: "Prefer power for India, not good will...
...French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars were Act I of a European melodrama of which the Russian and German Revolutions and the two World Wars are Act II. Act I was so terrifying that people prefer to remember it as something written by Thomas Carlyle or Victor Hugo, something out of War and Peace, The Dynasts or The Charterhouse of Parma...
...breeding tests. And this proportion is going up as Nazi influence spreads through Vichy's France and Portugal. There are Finns, Poles, Norwegians, Spaniards, Dutch, as well as Frenchmen-seven million of them-who want to leave Marseille and Lisbon before the Storm troopers arrive. All, of course, would prefer to come here, but they will go wherever the door is open from Alaska to South Africa. We have already admitted many, and we will gain by taking as many more as we have room for. Not often since the Mayflower has the scum of a European wave...
Germany may prefer not to have a major front in the Balkans-one which might repeat the patterns of 1918. British and Greek successes in the Mediterranean area threaten to swell the Greek conflict into such a front. The threat, it is true, was last week not immediate, since General Sir Archibald Wavell's continued advance into Libya (see p. 25) seemed to indicate Britain was committed to destroying Italy's Libyan Army, to the exclusion of new business for some time to come. Neither was the threat too serious: the Salonika campaign by which the Allies conquered...