Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith and Ohio's Republican Representative Frances Bolton introduced resolutions asking that the rose be made the national flower. Said the resolutions: "The rose has long been the favorite flower of the American people, who prefer it by a margin of 18 to 1 over any other." It added that the rose has become an "international symbol of peace"-the Peace rose gardens in such places as Jacksonville and Abilene apparently having dimmed the memory of the Wars of the Roses. Mused Mrs. Bolton: "Perhaps the President would issue...
Blonde, well-rounded Marilyn Monroe is admired (or deplored) the world over as the sexiest little number in the movies. But Marilyn herself would prefer to be remembered by posterity as a dramatic actress. Fed up over her salary (a stark $1,500 a week) and the "commercial" attitude of her boss, 20th Century-Fox, Marilyn began a revolt in Manhattan: she called a press conference...
...newspaper need rarely to feel apologetic about repeating plaints in behalf of academic freedom, increased defense measures, and the like, it hesitates before repeating suggestions about College gates. We have hesitated, waiting for our irrefutable logic to be answered. Patience can have its monuments, but as for us, we prefer more immediate rewards...
...read William Faulkner's letter on the recent Idlewild disaster [Judgments & Prophecies-TIME, Jan. 3] with mixed annoyance and surprise . . . Let Mr. Faulkner ask any qualified pilot whether he would prefer "the seat of his pants" or ILS for a landing with a 200-foot ceiling . . . It seems useless and senseless to blame a "gadget" for such a disaster, especially in view of the evidence, unless of course one is subject to an artistic antimechanical bias. Although it is possible that the thesis of man's superstitious dependence on his more complicated tools might be worthy of some...
...China-Tibet highways present new strategic daggers at the mountain passes of India, a fact that India's top soldiers worry about, but India's top politicians (Nehru & Co.) prefer not to discuss out loud. The new highways, giving Red China access to the undeveloped mineral resources of Tibet, also present impressive evidence of what a slave economy can do: the roads took 3½ years to build; their combined length (2,722 miles) is almost twice as long as China's ancient Great Wall and more than three times as long as the Burma Road...