Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analyze what is wrong with the economy of Latin America. Before them was a massive, 484-page report compiled jointly by the U.N. and the Organization of American States. Two words among the thousands summed up the situation: "relative stagnation." A Mexican delegate put it more bluntly. "I prefer to call it plain stagnation...
...them, but for Princess Margaret, 32, it was her very first royal equerry. He is Major Michael Patrick Andrew Mitchell, 34, a tall bachelor from the crack Coldstream Guards, who will serve as a surrogate squire for Meg at those endless official functions Husband Tony may prefer to miss...
...Inquisitional Spain (one of his best plays is the one-act Escurial). He was a believer in the supernatural; he considered the human senses incomplete, and he was convinced that there are sounds, colors and perfumes that man has never experienced. "To the title of intellectual, which stinks, I prefer that of artisan," he said, "which has a good smell...
...Russian scale (some even have their own cars), the corps de ballet dancers are getting only $50 a week in the U.S., plus rooms and one free meal a day at the Hotel Governor Clinton. They cannot afford to eat in the better restaurants, and they apparently prefer not to eat in people's restaurants, such as Horn & Hardart's. Most buy groceries and eat cold suppers in their hotel rooms after the evening performance...
Endless Staple. Some families prefer to do their own prospecting in Europe and import a cook or a maid without a written contract. This can lead to some poignant frustrations when the importee discovers what a seller's market domestic service is in the U.S. Cook stealing has long been a popular sport (even the Kennedys have tried it), but it has reached fantastic heights. Anna, a cook who came from Germany to Beverly Hills-where cook stealing is as popular as wife stealing-started at $250 a month. Within three weeks she had switched to another household...