Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discussing nuclear '"deterrents" with a Yale group in New Haven, Conn., British Biologist Sir Julian Huxley said: "I prefer to call them 'detergents' because we must not forget their awesome capability of literally cleaning us off the globe...
...simply capitalizing on the American public's worry about its prestige abroad, a concern that cost Nixon votes in the recent campaign. But in the more extreme versions of this attempt to exploit Castro's offer by crying blackmail, there are ugly hints of another cry that one would prefer not to hear in American politics again: appeasement...
...encores. In Hamburg she had to go back onstage in her street dress and Indian moccasins to sing two final songs. In Berlin the manager of the Sportpalast assured her that he had not heard so much audience noise since Hitler ranted there in 1938. He seemed to prefer Mahalia...
Even if "people would more often prefer to be entertained than stimulated or informed," said Minow, "your obligations are not satisfied if you look only to popularity . . . It is not enough to cater to the nation's whims-you must also serve the nation's needs. The people own the air. They own it as much in prime evening time as they do at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. For every hour that the people give you, you owe them something. I intend to see that your debt is paid with service . . . Never have so few owed...
Postulate 2: Persons within this community prefer sophisticated arguments to non-sophisticated presentations...