Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toss-Up. Nor is there any certainty that Heath would win. Although the Conservatives seem to have an edge, recent polls show that an election now would be a tossup. Indeed, there is a feeling in many quarters that Britons would prefer to vote against both Heath and Opposition Labor Leader Harold Wilson. As the Financial Times's Joe Rogaly put it last week, "My first reaction [to news that an election might be called] was, goodness, how awful if one of them wins...
...Today, the Thieu regime has reversed its faltering steps toward land reform and handed back vast tracts to the former owners, while reforms in the NLF-controlled areas of the south continue unhindered. There is little doubt that the vast majority of peasants in southern Vietnam would prefer the NLF program were they permitted to leave the crowded cities and return home...
...Dodgers versus the Giants. Watching the battle between our censors and our civil libertarians has become a national pastime. Little does it matter what works are in dispute; the issues remain remarkably constant. Indeed, over the decades, the questions have become even more refined--or crude, if you prefer--and are now beginning to be asked in their purest forms: it's a lot clearer what's in dispute over Deep Throat than in Ulysses or Lady Chatterly's Lover half a century...
Many of our species apparently prefer to regard humanity as elevated from the rest of the animal kingdom by virtue of a "soul" or other such mystical paraphernalia. Some, however, see the species as animal in origin, and regard sexuality in the same light. Opponents of pornography who argue that it is bestial in nature, and reduces human activity to the level of animals, are quite correct. This is, perhaps, my reason for being bored with current pornography. But it is beside the point. Pornography is not a popular view, yet it is a coherent one, one which...
...tremendous sense of humor without being flippant," is one description. Another is: "A typical Wellington, snappy at times but sociable." Oh, well, the British prefer their royals a little naughty, and Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, only daughter of the eighth Duke of Wellington, was seen risking lèese-majesté by shying melons at Prince Charles' head on his recent visit to her parents' Spanish estate. Now Charles, a childhood friend of Jane's, apparently thinks of her as more than just a girl-next-door romance, and so do many of his subjects. When dark...