Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hugh Sidey joins the ranks of the ridiculous with his column on the President's preference for "Jimmy" [Dec. 12]. Personally, I prefer an honest Jimmy to a boring Hugh. And, who knows, if President Hoover had been the type to prefer Herbie, he might have been a man to face up to the issues of his time...
There is no evidence as Americans enter 1978 that they share Hardy's aesthetic view and prefer chaos to calm. For the first time in more than a dozen years, abroad and at home the nation is at peace and clearly enjoying it. Sons do not go off to die in foreign fields, and daughters do not end their lives making bombs for a war at home. The crime rate, particularly for murder, is way down. The hatreds that lashed American cities, while not cured, are curbed. The humiliations of political deceit no longer command headlines...
...correspondents covering the movement were an ecumenical group. James Wilde, on the West Coast, marveled at the faith of the Evangelicals, but says that he remains "an un repentant papist. I prefer the pomp of Rome, the scarlet Cardinals and Gregorian Chant...
...prefer a political overthrow...
...standard deviations along such a curve. In the tests, about 68% score between 85 and 115; less than 3% score below 70-or above 130. Because scores fluctuate widely in the high IQ range, researchers have scrapped the designation genius (once defined as 140 level or above). Now they prefer more subtle terms like superior and very superior. Because terminology differs from one test to another, anyone with a 120 score on the Wechsler test is designated superior, while the same score rates only above average on the Otis-Lennon...