Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protection devices such as Chicago's ingenious sound-wave system, whose disruption lights lamps, sets off bells and sirens and alerts everybody in the neighborhood. Because this is so expensive, Chicago generally uses a $12 "Prowl Alarm" that greets intruders with an unearthly howl. But Chicago authorities would prefer putting police dogs in every school...
...readers are rural Negroes in the Black Belt of Alabama and Mississippi (during the Meredith March from Memphis to Jackson last summer, the Courier distributed free copies along the route, received letters asking for reporters and subscriptions, and happily supplied both). Few people want their copies mailed; they prefer to pay a dime each time the six-page full-sized paper is delivered to their doorstep. The Courier buses papers out to dozens of local distributors--housewives, civil rights leaders, retired steelworkers--who mail back the paper's share of the money collected, as well as news tips and items...
...purposes of the Administration because, as he said later in the column, he believed that in this case he had got on to the truth, and so by printing it he was serving the public, too. Scores of Washington reporters work by the same principles every day. You would prefer your sources to speak for the record, but when they won't, you take it on their terms and try to be as honest about...
...heeded, the U.S. would have saved the $1,000,000 paid us, and the economy would have gained a considerable quantity of a cotton of which there is shortage rather than surplus. The Government allows us to plant cotton on approximately one out of every ten acres. We would prefer that the program of Government payments be terminated and have long been on record to that effect. But if this be done, the Government must also terminate its uneconomic and indefensible restriction on production of cotton fibers that are in demand...
...while about the Cambridge Inner Belt. The other said he was giving up academic work in the capitalist university (a self-service supermarket for U.S. corporations and the government). Mrs. K. nodded in understanding: I felt she knew who the class enemy was, and how a student could prefer fighting this enemy to taking its lousy...