Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said last night he would "prefer to remain silent" on the possibility of Lewis's coming here...
Some students said they prefer what purists might call "real" football. Anne Cherner '76 said, "I'm from Alabama, and compared with Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide, Harvard football holds no mysteries...
...minds of lifelong flops like Bruce. It afflicts such people with a belief that now, having paid heavy dues, they are entitled to act out all their long-suppressed fantasies of power. The failure to deal with this point lends credence to the lurking suspicion that the moviemakers prefer myth-making to truth-telling...
Today Miller sits in an opulent office that is a relic of the U.M.W.'s autocratic era. "I am not comfortable here in Washington," he told TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan. "I would prefer being down in the coal fields with the membership." He lives in a simple bachelor apartment in the capital, returning on weekends to the Cabin Creek hamlet of Ohley. His wife Virginia remains there in a tiny, plain frame house on an old road near the creek. The Millers have two children, Larry, 22, an electronics technician, and Vicki, 20, a student. Some day Miller intends...
...reported that 21 of the animals developed ataxia-depression-a nervous disorder characterized by listlessness, loss of appetite and lack of coordination; four of the animals died. The Environmental Protection Agency warns that flea-collar poisoning may produce dizziness, nausea and skin rashes in humans. The pesky insects generally prefer the fur of pets, but can be found on human bodies. Fleas can also live in carpets and furniture, emerging to bite householders. Thus, suggest health officials, people who have flea problems should use a vacuum cleaner, carefully empty the contents into a plastic bag and then close it tightly...