Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Javanese Annamites, Indians, Chinese, Frenchmen and Khmers, but the craggy, mountainous state has survived with its ethnic unity just about intact. More than two-thirds of Its people are Laotians and related Thais. Its language is still its own native Thai. Its religion is still Buddhism. Even the French prefer to channel their rule through Laotian kings, and they have established their own purely administrative capital at Vientiane 130 miles from Luang Prabang. Since 1904 the French have ruled through one venerable monarch, King Sisavang Vong, now old (68) and gouty, but no easy man to scare. When the Communists...
...trial for slander, Irma's father had indignantly complained: "To doubt my daughter's aristocratic descent is to slander the father of the fiancee of Farouk, whose wedding is imminent." At week's end, however, Irma herself hastened to restore Farouk to full bachelor status. "I prefer not to marry," sighed she. "Farouk is sensible and tender, but marriage is the tomb of love...
...such ideas were against the temper of the times, and commissions were hard to get. So O'Gorman turned to painting, and developed in two directions at once: some of his canvases were meticulously realistic, others violently expressionistic. He enjoys his imaginative painting. But his conscience makes him prefer his realistic style because "it is easier to look at and live with. In general, good as modern painting can be, you get tired of it after a while. Art is like making love or eating. It is a pleasure, not something you have to learn...
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Cinemactor Charles (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes}. Coburn, 77, one of Hollywood's favorite choices for bloated-plutocrat roles, stood up before the Chamber of Commerce in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale and told the boys why plutocrats are no longer bloated. His subject: "Freedom or Slavery." His target: the federal income tax. Appearing near by in a summer theater production of You Can't Take It With You, Coburn lamented that he cannot even keep it while he is alive. "I have paid $1,000,000 in federal...
...view of the fact that the majority of the Southern whites and Negroes still prefer to maintain a segregated public-school system, a friend of mine proposes that separate schools be maintained for the majority of the children, with a small school for those few Yankees and NAACPers who just love to mix. In addition, a small, dilapidated one-room school should be kept in each southern county in order that our Northern "friends" might be able to continue their wailing about the wretched conditions in the South . . . Save your Confederate money, boys...