Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everywhere: parked near the beach at Cape Cod, on Manhattan's West Side, on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, or cruising the roads, pikes and throughways in between. Few of them are new and shiny, and no one bothers much about paint or chrome. The kids actually prefer them to have modest exteriors; a flashy-looking van is always more attractive to thieves. To the owner what is important is what is inside...
...when Assumption Church on the West Side of Chicago celebrates its one Mass in Latin every Sunday, worshipers jam in from as far away as Wisconsin. Many young couples come to Assumption to marry, specifically requesting a Nuptial Mass in Latin. The majority of Catholics may or may not prefer the vernacular as a more vital medium. But it is clear that some harbor a suspicion that modernity is overrated and favor Latin phrases as dark and cool and articulate as cathedral stones...
Short Pants. Indeed, Alberigo would prefer to see no Lex Fundamental at all. "A committee of human beings cannot expect to sit down and design this divinely created organism. A design of the church when put into written words no longer is the church of God but the church of a Felici or a commission or a Pope." Though defenders of the concept have argued that any Lex would be amendable, Alberigo contended that the church moves so slowly that "the pants will always be too short." To attempt to construct a constitution at this point in history, he said...
...generation of enthusiasts is currently engaged in a polite argument over the relative merits of various wheeled mounts. One faction, for example, favors the 18-in.-wheel minibike, which, according to its advocates, is more maneuverable than the 27-in. English model that others prefer...
Coming in the heyday of the hitter, Vida Blue's success is all the more remarkable. It also points out one of the happy paradoxes of the game: while many fans prefer the action of a double rattling off the wall, just as many dote on that subtle little duel between hurler and hitter. Baseball has its troubles?shaky franchises, feuding owners, player dissents?but as long as its basic appeals thrive, so too will the game...