Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to take that position." If a draft did materialize, he continued, it would have to be "one which I personally would feel came from the hearts of the people," and not one that was "engineered or arranged." But he sought to make it "crystal clear" that he would prefer not to be drafted. Said he: "I sincerely do not wish...
Nighttime Lesson. The jaguar, a wily, elusive beast that is vicious when cornered, is hunted either by day with dogs or by night with lights. Daredevil bushland residents, like Sarapiqui's Froylan Ponce, prefer night hunting because "it is surer-El Tigre moves at night." Others, like Enrique Martinez, a professional guide from San Jose, have learned a lesson or two. Two years ago Martinez was leading a hunting party that jumped a 250-lb. jaguar at night. He trained his coal miner's head lamp on the animal while one of the hunters took aim and fired...
Broken Hold. Though he wants to oust De Gaulle, Defferre has no intention of returning to the late unlamented Fourth Republic, with its dreary succession of ephemeral governments. He concedes that French voters now prefer a strong President and promises to retain the Gaullist constitution, but without De Gaulle's self-assumed special powers, which Defferre considers a breach of that constitution...
Painfully Solemn. Some of them insist that it was caused by a comet; others prefer to believe that a huge, extraterrestrial spaceship crashed in Siberia, or perhaps jettisoned nuclear fuel that exploded and dug the crater. In 1959, an expedition of students from Tomsk University claimed to have found that the area is still radioactive, and so many Russians accepted their observations that the Soviet Academy of Sciences sent its own expedition-which found no abnormal radioactivity...
...course, the need for new plant signs, new stationery and new bank checks bearing the company's new name, and national companies must also bear both the small legal expense and the bigger bother of reregistration in 50 states and with government agencies. Many companies, as a result, prefer to create a slim and progressive image simply by stressing their initials. That technique has worked well for such companies...