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Word: prefered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MONIES $ OR MASTERS OF DECEIT The ANGLOS." He shuffles to one side and blinks at his spectator, the corners of his mouth twitch as though my bewilderment amuses him. "Did you know about the Polish-Americans?" The general manager sneaks up while the scribbler is saying that he would prefer to continue our conversation in Polish or Lithuanian. The general manager intends to lock this lunatic up, or give him the ax: he sends the usher to find an ax. The lunatic asks if this place is chauvinistic, which sounds like a reasonable question to me. But an approaching police...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Zone for Tremulous Flanks | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

Apparently, most of the players prefer to play three yards and a cloud of dust, and are simply unable to comprehend, let alone execute, Restic's shifts, reshifts, and counter-shifts. As a result, they refused to practice under Restic, and demanded a coach whose favorite plays were the Statue of Liberty and "everybody out, hit the open...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

...players demand it? Cleary, it seems, lost his players' support because he was forcing them to skate too fast. The players prefer to skate leisurely figure eights up and down the ice, never coming anywhere near the boards, and never digging the puck out of the corners. Cleary's style, which demands hard skating and fast, forechecking forwards, contrasted sharply with the expectations of the players...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 11/20/1975 | See Source »

...definition of "gay" seems to be the most a propose introduction. To me "homosexual" clearly refers to one's sexual preference, but "gay" encompasses much more than this. To be "gay" is to infer a much broader social context than that of the sexual partner alone. It is a lifestyle: one's primary social identification and sphere of interaction is with members of one's own sex and consequently, one's emotional identification is within that sphere as well. What this means then is that a woman need never to have had sex with another woman...

Author: By Cheryl Macclelland, | Title: Being Gay at Harvard | 11/18/1975 | See Source »

...were still in the courts. When pressed on the Quinlan case she said, "I don't want to talk about that case, I really don't because, as I say, it is still in the court and its very, very hard for all the people involved. So I'd prefer...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: Sissela Bok: What Does She Do Till Derek Comes Home? | 11/14/1975 | See Source »

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