Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked simply, "Whom would you prefer for your father, Johnson or Goldwater?" forty-two girls chose the President, while thirty favored his rival. Unlike the ancient Chinese, Cliffies apparently draw sharp distinction between familial and executive ability, since seventy-one of those polled supported Johnson for the Presidency. The other one didn't care...
...defensive emphasis means that Yovicsin may prefer to keep Bilodeau at defensive halfback rather than use an untested man there. This is especially true because of the pressure put on the secondary by the constant passing of opposing quarterbacks this year...
Another great obstacle to their survival is Lyndon Johnson himself, who seems by a process of rapid political mutation to have become more fit than they to occupy their evolutionary niche. It is likely that many businessmen prefer Johnson to Rockefeller. It is not impossible that quite a few industrialists secretly prefer him to Scranton...
...Moros in motorized sailboats armed with modern weapons). In the back pages of the papers dwell Buck Rogers, Peanuts and the pistol ads. More than 25,000 weapons were left in the islands after World War II; they were not "enough for the 31 million Filipinos, most of whom prefer to go armed. Last year one act of violence was attempted every hour-ranging from murder to mere assault. And Philippine courts are still trying some of the many murder cases that resulted from 1961's election campaign...
Disgusted by Controls. Its opponents, notably in Red China, call this switch economic "revisionism," while its backers prefer to regard it as "creative...