Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Preference for Land. Despite their good life, Rhodesia's whites still consider themselves frontiersmen in the mold of Cecil Rhodes, the free-swinging colossus who led Britain's last grasps of empire. Announcing that "I prefer land to niggers," he marched into the territory, developed it with his own money, policed it with his own troops and, on the basis of a royal charter granted his British South Africa Co., gave it a government traditionally free of direct London rule...
Most blacks now prefer to call their nation Zimbabwe, after the thousand-year-old ruins of a civilization of master artisans who apparently traded with places as far away as China. To Rhodes, however, it was Zambesia, realm of King Lobengula of the Matabeles, and coveted by the colossus as a link in his dream of an "allred route" of British colonies from Cape Town to Cairo. Rhodes's interest was not exclusively imperial: Explorer David Livingstone had returned from the area some 30 years before with tales of gold nuggets "as big as grains of wheat...
...details of daily living beyond the fantasies of yesterday's Utopians. To move through its 1,011 pages is to have one's eyes opened to a wonderland of federal paternalism that stretches from cradle to grave or, as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare might prefer to put it, from the Children's Bureau to the Office of Aging...
...referendum, in essence, asks whether the people of Cambridge would prefer plurality voting. Thus, to keep PR, one must vote NO, and this is what we advise...
...counsel that, but we don't think it's cowardly or wrong." What about Viet Nam? "We recognize objectively that U.S. withdrawal is going to mean a Communist victory. But it's their country. We don't belong there. I would prefer not to see Communism triumph. I'm sorry about that. But we have spent ten years trying to find viable democratic alternatives short of blowing the place up, and we have failed...