Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, nobody expects mothers going through natural childbirth to be martyrs. St. Mary's Dr. Carl Dreyer tells all natural-childbirth mothers in the delivery room: "Any time this ceases to be fun, we can give you gas." But a surprising number never ask for it, prefer instead to reap the psychological benefits of wide-awake participation in their baby's birth. "It is common for a natural-childbirth mother right after birth to talk about having another baby," says Sister Charitas, "but I have never known a mother who had a general anesthetic to mention having...
...Prefer U.S. Study...
There is naturally competition for the scholarships available, and it is particularly keen for scholarships to the United States. Regardless of what a refugee or his party may think of U.S. policy toward the liberation movements, the great majority of refugee students prefer to go to the U.S. and many have a strong aversion toward study in China or the Soviet Union. Numerous students have refused (against their party's wishes) to go to Communist countries and some have even switched political parties to avoid being sent. But because the American scholarship program, which is run by the U.S. Embassy...
More important than these two, however, was a third, less noble, reason for the directive; the suspicious, paranoic, militance which propelled the Party. White allies, including Northern lobbyists, were viewed less as assets than as conspirators waiting to exploit the FDP for selfish ends. The Party seemed to prefer testing its friends to using them constructively...
...Roxbury Negroes, the people who go to BAG [Boston Action Group] meetings are not for integration. They're identity-conscious. If they could get as good or better education without whites in the school, they would prefer it. I think it contributes to the myth of white superiority to say you can't get a good education without having whites going to school with you. It's just that you can't get the white officials to improve the schools enless there are whites attending them...