Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie Ben Hur. It was not showing anywhere in London, so his British hosts thoughtfully took him to see How the West Was Won instead. The West has yet to win Sergei. Given a free shot of whisky at a Scotch distillery, he grimaced: "No, no. Too strong, I prefer dry Georgian wine." But he finished...
...time when the Bahamas and the rest of the West Indies are suffering from creeping civilization -even on the best powder beaches, people no longer lie on the sand but on chaise longues, swim not in the ocean but in shoreside swimming pools, at night prefer the soft mechanical thunder of the air conditioner to the sound of the tropical breeze through the palms-Burke offers the uncertain pleasure of putting the escapist back in touch with elemental nature...
...board percentage cut on 5,000 items in international trade. The Six, understandably, want to open up world markets for their own industry and farmers. Since their tariff walls are already generally lower than the U.S.'s, they reject a flat cut that would only perpetuate the disparities, prefer instead a selective approach that would make progress to ward equalizing all trade barriers. Further complicating the talks is the failure of the Eurocrats to set a Common Market farm pricing policy, without which it is impossible to discuss agricultural tariffs-an issue vital to the U.S. be cause...
...while the Strivers are thus occupying themselves, another, much smaller group of students is vehemently scorning them. These students prefer to Scoff. They spend endless hours at their private passtime--playing pool, cards, tennis or the horses; acting, writing, carousing, or talking to friends. Rather than give themselves over to any academic system, they deny all systems violently. They only begin a paper weeks after it is due, boasting about their devilry or bemoaning their assured doom. They dip into books just before an exam and fish out some facts to fool the grader. They pick courses for their easiness...
...York Democrats have been scratching around for months trying to find a candidate to oppose Republican Senator Kenneth Keating next November. Now a new name has been suggested. "I have reached a stage in life," said famed (My Life in Court) Attorney Louis Nizer, 62, "in which I would prefer to give such talent as I may have to public service rather than private clients." And he added: "I shall be earnestly receptive to the nomination, making no pretense, according to the political rule, that I am reluctant unless the honor is forced upon...