Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Open was the 276 shot by the magnificent "Wee Ice Mon," Ben Hogan, in 1948-14 strokes more than Gay Brewer took at Pensacola last week. Dey complains that the rash of low scores in P.G.A. tournaments "cheapens the concept of par." Both he and Jones insist that fans prefer to watch a golfer battle the hazards of a tough, demanding course-such as Georgia's 6,980-yd. Augusta National, site of this week's Masters tournament. "Galleries aren't attracted by low scores," says Architect Jones. "What they want to see are great golf shots...
Johnson's hand was strengthened further during the week by two statements lending support to his present policy. One came from Socialist Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, who conceded in Tokyo that some Southeast Asian nations "may well prefer some permanent American military presence" to a repetition of "the process that is emasculating South Viet Nam." The other statement was made on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
...diplomacy involved is a bit delicate, since the U.S. State Department would prefer not to turn the defection into any more of an international flap than it already is. Indeed, at first it seemed that the U.S. had turned down Stalin's daughter Svetlana, 41, when she showed up at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. Last week, while Svetlana remained in hiding in Switzerland, the State Department clarified its position somewhat by reporting that it had in fact issued her a visa to come to the U.S.; the question of whether she will eventually be granted asylum...
...prefer to stay right here and screw your...
...Lardner aware that this contention contradicts the one above it? Would he like the program to be more like high school? Perhaps he would prefer to approach problems such as the relationship between government and science, the conduct of foreign policy, or the management of the national economy through the use of pre-digested textbooks that really would convey the establishment line? The know-nothing bias which underlies his argument is truly breathtaking...