Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particular tribe of chauvinists that New York has always bred could only observe that if relative cleanliness and efficiency were Doublet's criteria, then perhaps he would prefer Salina, Kans., or Salt Lake City. Still, if it is true that the world's great cities-ancient Rome or 19th century London, for example-have always been paradoxically noisome and even dangerous places, many New Yorkers could do with a little less greatness...
...saying doesn't do the cause of literature any good, or the intellectual cause in general. If one denies the power of the word to do evil, one denies the power of the word to do good. In effect, one denies the power of the word. I prefer the healthy fear and awe of the written and spoken word, evidenced by censorious zealots, to the wishy-washy neutralism of the liberalist anti-censors...
...regulation at all is anathema to some civil libertarians, who have a respectable and logical position. It was easier to agree with them when pornography was young and reasonably clean-for instance, back in 1949, when Judge Curtis Bok inveighed against censorship. "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life in my own library than behind a neighbor's barn," he wrote. But with pornography what it is today, parents may wonder whether their daughters are not actually better off behind the barn than in the library or at the movies. Even liberal Americans...
...Most rugby teams in America are comprised mainly of foreigners or former college football players." Sandomirsky said. "But our starting team is more than half undergraduates. Some of them are just too small to make the football team, but many of them prefer the informality of rugby to other college sports...
...sentences, the Scott, Foresman authors argue that children should start the same way and later add systematic phonics, which involves the teaching of sounds of individual letters, diphthongs and the like. In short, the old "look-say" reading method has survived in new forms despite all the critics who prefer phonics from the start. On balance, says Dr. Carl Smith of Indiana University's Reading and Evaluation Center, "Many of our traditional approaches have been successful with many children, but chiefly those with normal cultural experiences, a typical vocabulary and no dialect problems...