Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though right-wingers make the most clamor for De Gaulle, it is significant that his appeal has always cut across party lines (except among the Communists). When France's allies consider what direction France might now take, they would prefer most the continued existence of the present regime, if roused by the common peril it resolved its differences. Otherwise London and Washington would prefer a De Gaulle who took power constitutionally* to 1) a popular front in which the Communists took part or 2) a military rule responding to mob appeal...
Eliot finds that an increasing number of people are trying to explain his own poems to him. "I prefer the Jung school of criticism to the Freud school," he remarked, "because my poems fare better...
...call to make house visits, or, if this is not to be our privilege, we should not be forced to pay $56.50 to be told to pack up our things, grit our teeth, and march off to Stillman. If this is Radcliffe's version of socialized medicine, we would prefer to get our money back and call our own doctors, who would, we hope, come when we needed them. In the last analysis, it is the inhumanity of the present system to which we object most strongly. Helen Hennessy 2G, House President for 77 Brattle Street
Since it is difficult to estimate accurately the rate of attrition, the Committee would prefer to have too few rather than too many acceptances. The new policy allows more leeway in getting the correct number in the Freshman class...
...This is a business trip," he said, "but I don't like to call it publicity; I prefer to use the word 'promotion.' Yes, we did cut a few feet of the movie in deference to the Legion of Decency. They were going to give it a C-rating. C for Condemned...