Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state-run distribution system similar to that in Washington state-which with approximately the same population collected $42 million in liquor taxes last year. Johnson proposed to earmark the extra funds for the state's inadequate school system and public health services. Also tourists and conventioneers, who prefer not to break a law to bend an elbow, would probably be more numerous as a result...
...this obvious meaning sticks in our throats. Greene has so infused his narrator's personality with ennui and detachment that we cannot imagine his caring about anything under any circumstances, with any upbringing. And the people who are committed are all such pitiful, blundering fools that we almost prefer the narrator to them. Perhaps their lives have more meaning, but when forced to compare their world views, the only one anywhere near reality is the narrator's. Greene obviously admires the idealists, but if the reader finds anyone admirable, it is the narrator...
...come to the U.S. The closest thing they have to one is a toasted crumpet, which is about as close as a shrimp is to an oyster. And when playing pool in England, you can make a drastic mistake by complimenting someone on his "English." A Briton would prefer that you admired his "screw...
...author contends that an ordinary drinker cannot tell Scotch from bourbon if he is blindfolded and holds his nose. Bishop invites doubters to make the test by having someone else set up the experiment (teetotalers can substitute quinine water and coffee). It is all academic anyway, since most people prefer to drink with eyes, nose and mouth open. Just the same, the book makes pleasant bar-time reading...
...proposed code does not provide lawyers for those unable to afford them because the reporters would prefer that suspects not exercise their right to remain silent, and they fear that lawyers would advise suspects of this right more effectively than would the police. It is a dangerous philosophy for the Government to grant a right (i.e., to refuse to answer incriminating questions) and then, out of fear that the right may be exercised, to deny most citizens effective access to the information necessary to its exercise. This is what the reporters have proposed and why I am opposed to their...