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Word: preferably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter conducts foreign affairs, says Stevenson, "like high-level tourism instead of the hard work of diplomacy." Stevenson would prefer to emphasize economic measures more than military in combatting Soviet expansionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Startling Salvo | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Personally, I couldn't wait to escape from under the thumbs of these zealots, the grammarians. I find I would much prefer splitting infinitives than hairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Anthony Spalinger, lecturer in Near Eastern Languages at Yale, said yesterday he would prefer to teach a course in Ancient Egyptian culture and civilization...

Author: By Janet S. Walker, | Title: Committee Announces Mellon Fellows for 1979; Winners Plan to Teach Wide Variety of Seminars | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

...entertainment at the Kennedy Center for the Vice Premier and 600 selected guests, including Washington's Government and business elite. They will view the ballet Rodeo and excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie and hear John Denver sing his country songs. One Washington wag suggested that Teng would probably prefer a show performed exclusively by Russian defectors: Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and ex-Moscow Philharmonic Conductor Kiril Kondra-shin, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Teng's Great Leap Outward | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...young who are most responsible for the changes in Moras En Valloire. They retain the peasant work ethic, for that is too deeply rooted in their psyches to discard; but generally they tend to be impatient with tradition. Instead, they prefer the future with its glittering promise of a new and better life ahead...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

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