Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best proof that we are still living in the world of the past," says one Geneva businessman ruefully. The Gazette de Lausanne pointed out that the foreigners are in Switzerland in large part because the Swiss want somebody else to do the "servile or dirty work, and prefer white-collar and clean-hand jobs," and, if the foreigners are expelled, the Swiss will be the first to suffer. Syndicalisme blasted the ousters as "Helvetic Goldwaterism...
...bellowing "Vive le ski! Vive la France!" and singing a chorus of La Marseillaise. Then she announced that she was engaged to be married. "To whom?" the Premier inquired politely. Said Marielle, blowing a kiss: "To you!" Later, she confided to admiring newsmen that "I like Pompidou, but I prefer De Gaulle...
...niceties of the megaton-megalopolis age. They deserve notice because their brand of comedy is so clearly not the saccharine hilarity packaged by commercial laff merchants not the bad-boy snigger of contemporary bedroom farce. Nor does it necessarily appeal even to sophisticated tastes; it is for those who prefer mountain brooks to mainstreams. But it is strong, dark laughter, echoing-if not equaling-the bitter merriment to which other ages moved Juvenal, Rabelais and Swift...
They usually move in groups of 30 to 40. Led by guides from one jungle "station" to the next, the North Vietnamese start their six-month trek down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a labyrinthine maze of many paths, which U.S. advisers prefer to call "a line of drift...
...provide everything from a python to a piranha on a day's notice." Squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, woolly monkeys and others have become so popular that they are hardly classified as exotic any more. Among other species in demand are such far-out fauna as anteaters (they prefer bananas), wolves, wild pigs, electric eels, baby crocodiles and iguanas...