Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much closer links between the two agencies are unlikely. The Defense Department encounters absoulutely no opposition from Congress on its Budget requests and its would prefer to avoid the troubles surrounding NASA projects. The House cuts in NASA's funds not only limited the possibility of reaching the moon by the end of the decade, but they also cut into almost all of the NASA programs...
Those who find aesthetic value in smoking marijuana develop their own rituals and mystique. Although they may smoke almost any time and anyplace, they prefer company and settings in which the experience can be "really beautiful." Different people prefer to listen to oriental music or jazz, to look at paintings or simply to walk the streets. In any case, the experienced smoker adjusts his mental attitude to get the greatest possible effect from...
...week's end Gallup released the results of another poll. Exploring the growing speculation that Richard Nixon may become a candidate, Gallup asked a sampling of Republicans whom they would prefer if the convention choice narrowed to Goldwater and Nixon. Result: Nixon 52%, Goldwater...
Never in English. God is, of course, still in the theological vocabulary-except perhaps to some followers of Paul Tillich who prefer the phrase "Ground of Being." Tillich has provided a whole glossary of terms for modern theological table talk, including "religious atheism"; many more come from such equally fertile German word-coiners as Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Whenever possible, theological jargon words are used in their German form. Heilsgeschichte, for example, is more learned than salvation history, and it is definitely one up to say Angst instead of anxiety or Wissenschaft instead of discipline. Says...
...Magazine figures that the stamps amount to 14% of a retailer's operating costs, second only to his expenses for labor (44%)-and he obviously has to reckon those expenses in setting his prices. The magazine also questioned 12,000 U.S. housewives, concluded that most do not really prefer one store over another because of stamps or contests, but because of polite and helpful clerks...