Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America has yet to find a way to use power discriminately and effectively." That is the heart of the issue. The same lesson needs to be learned by the U.S.S.R. The difference between the two countries, however, is that the Soviets do not care about using power humanely but prefer to exercise their strength through brutality. We are caught in a situation akin to the proverbial contest with the skunk. Both of us get covered by the wretched smell, but the skunk does not care. He thinks that is a powerful nation's natural odor...
...popular vote. In theory, Hart could win more delegates than have agreed to run under his banner, filling the empty seats after the primary. In other states, prominently including Florida and Illinois, most delegates are elected directly by congressional district, in a vote separate from the presidential-preference balloting. Once listed on the ballot as being pledged to one candidate, they cannot shift and appear under the name of another. Thus in Illinois Hart will have to persuade voters in some districts to check his name on the presidential-preference section of the ballot, then go down to the delegate...
...were up to the candidate, such questions of personality would be kept out of the election. Indeed, Hart might prefer a campaign battle between position papers: his policy schemes vs. Walter Mondale's and John Glenn's, and may the best ideas win. Presidential politics is never so neat and bloodless, of course. Nor is Hart's appeal strictly intellectual. His political successes are due in some measure to his rugged good looks, about which he is a bit vain. But by and large Hart has staked his candidacy on the premise that he takes undoctrinaire policy...
...turning out his 42nd children's story, The Butter Battle Book (Random House; 48 pages; $6.95). An arms-race "preachment," as he calls it, the tale features no grinches, just a confrontational competition between average, everyday Yooks and Zooks who are suspicious of each other because the former prefer eating bread with the butter facing up while the latter like their butter facing down. The Yooks and Zooks devise bigger and more outrageous war machines, until each holds a Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo "filled with mysterious Moo-Lacka-Moo" capable of blowing the other to Sala-ma-goo. Says...
There is more than a hint of superiority in these feelings. Many Christians, for example, prefer to speak French rather than Arabic, as if to say, "I may be Lebanese and an Arab, but I am different...