Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...join Canada. If he persuades them, Newfoundland is going to need a Premier.' " And that, as Joey Smallwood liked to confide at political gatherings, was more or less how he came to be called, in one of his favorite phrases, "the Only Living Father of Confederation." Others prefer to describe him as the "Kwame Nkrumah of Newfoundland." Until he retired last week from the province's Liberal Party leadership after 23 years of almost absolute power, Smallwood was one of the Western Hemisphere's most benign demagogues and Canada's most entertaining politician. As he often...
President Nixon, in an interview published in this month's Reader's Digest, suggested that he would prefer to leave political questions for the South Vietnamese to settle after a cease-fire agreement and the completion of the release of U.S. prisoners and of the withdrawal of U.S. troops...
...promote the sport they will have to charge less," Kydes said. When asked whether he would prefer to play in Greece or in the States, he said that it all depended on the money, but that he "would prefer to play in the U.S.," and that "it would...
...forces recaptured the island during a month-long siege in the summer of 1944. From a leaflet that he found one day, Yokoi had known for 20 years that the war was over. But he had refused to surrender, he said, because "we Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive...
...hospital's acute section and gets the patient accustomed once more to caring for himself. In a VA hospital, with its relatively aged clientele, the program also reduces the number of patients who grow so used to the invalid's routine that they prefer it. Fourteen VA hospitals now use the system; private hospitals are beginning to follow suit, and not only for the elderly. Besides those nearly ready to go home, other types of patients are considered eligible, including those admitted for presurgical testing, businessmen undergoing executive physicals, certain psychiatric patients and those undergoing treatment for alcoholism...