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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, a consideration of these propositions and their implications--wearisome though it may seem, irritating though it may be to politicians who prefer to join one of the Kent State jurors in talking of the need to go back to "normal life"--is the only proper response to last week's events. Otherwise the normal life people return to will sooner or later include more draft-dodging exiles, more Kent States, more My Lais, and more of the daily round of repression and violence of which these were heightened, intensified moments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calley, Kent State | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

...hands were like wedges, his feet flew like blades. With his flashing skill, though, came an edge of self-deprecation. He was sure enough of his own power to be casual about it. That quality made him not only indomitable but affable-a surefire combination for those who prefer their super-heroes to be approachable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kung Fu's Last Fight | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Rosovsky's guidelines make it clear that the University would prefer to keep "material which will be useful for advising, supporting, or otherwise aiding students" in the files. They urge the authors of this kind of material to return their writings to the files; and, if the author cannot be reached, they provide that the material will not be destroyed unless it is "certain that the author, though inaccessible, would not wish the material in question to be made available to the affected student." Just how that is to be determined with certainty, however, is left unclear...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: The New Bureaucracy for Access to Files Brings On More Paperwork Than Revelations | 11/8/1974 | See Source »

...know there is no such thing as enough," Jaworski would reply. "I am not going to make agreements, I do not know what all we will need." Three times Haig "wondered" if Jaworski should meet with Nixon. Each time the lawyer stopped it with polite language. "I would prefer not to. I would have to disclose such a meeting. Then there would be speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Memories of a Prosecutor | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...Virgil Thomson, the spot that Playwright Arthur Miller chooses to stay at when he is in town opening a new play, and the regular New York stopover for a host of luminaries from the world of art, music, film and fiction, who, along with its dozens of regular residents, prefer the funky, faded chic of the Chelsea to more contemporary quarters uptown. Perennial Chelsea guests include the entire Fonda clan, Director John Houseman and Actors Al Pacino and Timothy Bottoms. Boasts the hotel's managing director, Stanley Bard: "It is the greatest assemblage of creative people under one roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rip-Off at the Chelsea | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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