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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mayor is on the spot. He would prefer to lead an uncommitted delegation to Miami Beach, where he can make a deal when the time is right. But there is a danger that his delegates might be beaten in the primary by rivals who are pledged to candidates. The most serious threat is Edmund Muskie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Of Muskie and Daley | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...economically at a stunning rate, Japan has shied away from assuming increased military responsibility. Though not wanting Japan to become a nuclear power, the U.S. would like it to spend much more on conventional armaments and exert more political influence in Asia. But Sato and Fukuda emphasized that they prefer to stay comfortably under the U.S. security umbrella for the time being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Trying to Make Up with Japan | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...thinks to ask of the promised fourth film, because Jodorowsky is already off into an explanation of his flight from the West Coast, during which he watched the inflight movie while listening to Sly and the Family Stone on his headphones. "I prefer to film silent voices like the American spaghetti Westerns. In my pictures, I change all the voices. For me an old woman is 70 years old, has experience of life in voice. I put it with face of a young girl. She becomes a great actress. Nobody's voice is their...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Luncheon with Jodorowsky: Charcoal-broiled and Medium-rare | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

...nearly a century the Paris Tannhäuser remained the most frequently performed version of the opera. Audiences loved the voluptuous new bacchanale; sopranos preferred to sing the more dramatic music of Venus. But eventually purists objected to the musical schizophrenia in the work, and came to prefer the earlier Dresden Tannhäuser. All the recordings, too, used the Dresden score until last week, when London released the first LPs of the Paris version-a premiere of sorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rebirth of Venus | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

There are two theories of how the universe was done....there was a Big Bang, just like in the Bible, and we're still riding that, it all came out of nothing all at once, like the Good Book say, right? ... Now the other, which I prefer, says it only seems that way. Fact is, it says, there is a steady state, and, though it is true everything is expanding outwards, it does not thin out to next-to-nothingness on account of the reason that through strange holes in this nothingness new somethingness comes pouring in from exactly nowhere...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike's Rabbit, Back in Brewer | 1/4/1972 | See Source »

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