Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person who doesn't want to commit himself to any team endeavor there are also sports for those who would rather play alone. There is sculling on the Charles (Harvard provides shells); swimming, either at the IAB or at Adams House (for those who prefer the natural approach--suits are optional); there is frisbee in the Yard, or tennis or subway riding or getting wrecked and bicycling to Fresh Pond; dodging traffic and Hare Krisna dancers in the Square or going to the ball park, running from muggers, sitting-in or marching when you get tired of sitting...
...will clearly be staggering. It has already parked a construction boom of awesome power--a boom which will look insignificant when compared to the commercial explosion expected to attend the Center's opening. Taxridden Cantabrigeans are likely to appreciate a new sluice of tax revenues, and some consumers may prefer modernized shopping areas...
...analysis of the 18-to 24-year-old voters shows McGovern outpolling Nixon, but by a slim margin. While 51% of the college students preferred McGovern, the total 18-24 bracket gave him only a 5% edge. Nixon enjoys a margin of nearly 3 to 1 among Protestants and almost 2 to 1 among Catholics; while McGovern leads among Jewish voters, his margin is a surprisingly thin 7%. The only groups that seem to be completely polarized by the candidates are the blacks and the Wallace conservatives. The poll shows that blacks prefer McGovern 7 to 1, whereas virtually...
...Cabinet Committee report wryly observes, they are "regularly and skillfully exploited by the illicit international trafficker." The report unhappily notes that in Burma, where the annual opium harvest comes to a hefty 400 tons, the narcotics trade is "not viewed with great alarm." Authorities in Pakistan prefer to act as if their country's opium output, which runs as high as 170 tons a year, is really "quite small...
Resignmanship, of course, requires only the barest familiarity with the game. Those with some chess skills may prefer the Stertorous opening, said to have been used by Shakespeare...