Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churches will determine whether a nation that spends $1.1 billion to celebrate Christ's birthday as a drinking occasion is sick rather than a sinner. As a father, a university faculty member and a human being concerned with the happiness and welfare of my fellow man, I prefer to remain "inappropriately abstinent...
21st Century Preview. New York has chosen a different way. While California educators prefer the masterly simplicity of their own plan, Clark Kerr considers New York's program "the most important single development in higher education today." It is working so well, observes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, that New York "is well on its way to overtaking California in the quality of its public higher education." Justifiably proud, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller boasts: "If you want to preview the American university of the 21st century, look at what is happening in higher education at S.U.N.Y. today...
...myself, however, I prefer palmistry, for it is a completely unique system. There are about three billion people in the world today, which means there are roughly six billion palms. There is no single pair of these palms that is identical, which means that every palm is unique. If the reader will look, for example, at both of his palms, he will undoubtedly notice at least some differences in the conformation of the lines. It is from these lines that I can tell a great deal about a person...
...lost 28 years of Congressional seniority because he supported Barry Gold-water in '64, has passed along the word that he doesn't care a bit whether his Wallace endorsement means the state's delegation won't get seated in Chicago. But Senator James Eastland, who would much prefer to keep on reasonably cordial terms with his Washington colleagues, has been quietly arranging to polish the state party's image by including a handful of Negroes among the delegates...
...important result of this experiment is the interested reaction of the audience; given the chance, they did prefer active participation to passive entetrainment. And if, as producer Lee said, the purpose of televising the game is "to make more people more sensitive to the problems involved in formulating foreign policy," it seemed to be a great success...