Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many moments of low comedy, all inadvertent, as when Abby beats up on her husband, croaking "You are gonna love and obey!" as she pummels him. The rampant foolishness, indeed, may be part of the point. Audiences know that Abby's appeal is way low-down and prefer to chide themselves for enjoying it. As much as they may laugh, though, audiences could never put themselves down as hard as these film makers have...
...generated by the Library. The demand for hotel/motel rooms is insufficient to support a new facility of a financially feasible nature. The housing demand created by the Library is minimal and is based upon the assumption that some of the National Archives and Records Service employees of Waltham would prefer to resettle near the Library site...
...gates of Hades. Mastiffs brought back from England by Julius Caesar became canine mercenaries, as famed in their day as the K-9 Corps of World War II. There are the tales, too, of faithful cats that travel thousands of miles to find their vanished owner, though thousands more prefer to abandon their homes. Cats are by nature haughty creatures, less dependent than dogs on caresses and canned entrees...
...crunch gets worse, and more and more workers find their wages and jobs insecure, such proposals will probably seem more and more important. The Democrats certainly aren't pushing them now, and the people who run the party--Strauss and the candidates--would no doubt prefer to leave things the way they are. But they may not be able to. Especially if there's a minor leftist upsurge like that of the '30s, the Democratic gorilla may find itself advocating a new New Deal...
...only nine came. Harvard admitted 18 per cent of its black applicants and 16 per cent of its applicants overall. Yet the number of black applicants was still under 3 per cent of the total pool. The GSAS claims that blacks are not applying to the GSAS because they prefer to go to professional schools. It is true that more students of all races are trying to get into law or medical school, but there is little or no evidence that blacks are attending these schools disproportionately...