Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...isolated villages in the hills, the murder of a few Caracas policemen, machine-gun forays on Caracas embassies, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a newspaper printing plant. Up to now, the bulk of the country's military has supported Betancourt in the interests of stability-and because they prefer his moderate reform to the violent upheaval a homegrown Castro would provoke. But as the tension continues, rumors of an impending coup rattle through the capital...
...much as a used-up gigolo. Bond would never speak with a cigarette dangling from his urbane lips, for instance. But his lines are not contra-Bond: "It would be a shame to waste that Dom Perignon '55 by hitting me with it," says Doctor No. "I prefer '53," retorts Bond. And the producers had the sense to take Bond comically. "All good, and, I am glad to say, not quite clean fun," said a critic in the Sunday Times. The Evening Standard called it "sadism for the family...
...Harvard Law School graduate, Higgs estimated that "in a secret ballot, 80 or 90 per cent of the Ole Miss faculty would vote to admit Meredith and they'd be glad to have him." Higgs said that while most of the students were against Meredith's admission, they would prefer it to keeping him out at the cost of bloody riots or closing the university...
While Sigma 7 bobbed on the little waves of the sunlit Pacific, Schirra reported by radio that he was dry and comfortable and would prefer to be picked up while still in his own ship. "A sweet little bird," he remarked. Helicopters dropped frogmen into the water, and they attached inflatable tubes to keep Sigma 7 afloat. Then the Kcarsarge launched a whaleboat, which attached a line to the capsule. With Navy punctilio. Schirra formally asked the Kearsarge's captain for "permission to come aboard.'' "Permission granted." said Captain Eugene P. Rankin. After blowing the side hatch...
...said he, in a characteristically oblique reference to the fact that he will obviously get more money. From the columnist's previous employer, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney, came still an even more cryptic explanation: "Mr. Lippmann has felt that since he lives in Washington, he would prefer to have administrative matters connected with syndication handled by a Washington paper." And who else lives in Washington? Joe Alsop-whose contract with the Trib expires next year...