Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations as the best means of preventing war. He cited the General Assembly's demand to Red China to free the captive U.S. filers as an attempt to "do through the U.N. what Senators would do through blockade." MacLeish stated that men like McCarran and McCarthy, who prefer to resort to force are "traitors to peace...
According to White, graduating this year will be permitted, if they so prefer, to take the traditional three hour systematic general...
...protection rule. Although the rule makes no mention of TV, Lawrence insists that televising big-league games in minor-league cities is just as bad as the forbidden practice of bringing the games themselves to town: many minor-league clubs (including the Merrimacs) are going broke because their fans prefer big-league telecasts...
...plays La Sainte Courti-sane and Salome, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and even De Profundis itself. The fairy tales are still charming to read, though they, too, present a problem: peopled with Disney characters who serve only to make bittersweet, intellectual points, they are neither for children (who prefer Grimmer stuff) nor wholly for adults, but perhaps only for people in those in-between years that British Novelist J.R.R. Tolkien (TIME, Nov. 22) so happily calls the "tweens...
...result of such a meeting, Huang stated his willingness to try anything that might lead to a family reunion. "Family ties are much stronger with Chinese than with Americans," he stated. "Since it is impossible to have all my relatives come over here," he continued, "I would greatly prefer to return to China...