Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Design for Living. In Knoxville, Tenn., an employment ad in the Journal read: "Young married couple desires young lady to stay in home as companion to wife. Prefer one who sings Hillbilly songs...
...friend concerning the merits of re-electing a Congressman, Richard Yates, later governor of Illinois. The malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote depend absolutely upon the question of whether a candidate does or does not taste liquor...
...manipulated as a government mouthpiece by Minister of the Interior Vallenilla Lanz. Its plant was sacked at the height of the revolution, and in its place, only nine days after the revolution, Caraqueños last week got a new evening paper called El Mundo. Its fighting slogan : "I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful slavery...
...than we should. Our basic problem, whether it is in the Welfare State or whether it is in arms, is that we should plan to spend less than we are planning to spend at the present time. Nothing else will serve. I believe there is an England which would prefer to face these facts and make the necessary decisions...
Wilder himself took mild exception to what TV had wrought. "The addition of the Beatitudes is a crossing of the t's and a dotting of the i's,'' he said afterwards. "I prefer understatement." Of the show itself: "The book has a lighter tone. On TV there was too much concentration of misery. They caught the theme but not the tone of the book." Wilder's interpretation of the theme: "Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value...