Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulldogs who prefer the more direct approach, boxing coach "Mosey" King-31 years at New Haven-again directs flits workouts...
...come away thinking he's seen the world's dullest national game. But to all Englishman, things couldn't look more different. Cricket is to him--and has been almost since Magna Carta--the one sport truly beyond comparison. Some men like soccer, and some prefer rugby, while Scotsmen may say field hockey is better than either. But none will disagree about cricket. Its lack of action is its boast, not its shame. Its long matches, which last anywhere from one afternoon to four full days are as joyfully undertaken as the vigils of fishermen. In fact cricket has much...
...them had enough money to pay in full. So Perelle, to spark his sales, has taken on a total of $4,000,000 worth of bus company "paper." It averages 4¼% interest, and Perelle regards it as a safe investment, but it ties up money that he would prefer to put into modernizing Brill's plant...
...Stirring Peoples. The leaders of Istiglal, the independence movement, are on the whole moderate men who prefer pressure to violence. Yet the ferment of Moslem nationalism is reaching west toward Morocco. Last autumn there were election riots. Last week the Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, who was once mistakenly thought to be a safe man for France, dispatched a letter to President Vincent Auriol demanding more local rule...
...could pull up his coat collar and walk into a hail of bullets "the same as I would go through a storm of hail and wind." He did not go looking for trouble. "The diferance between dyeing today and tomorrow is not much," wrote one boy, "but we all prefer tomorrow." "We went out a Skouting yesterday," one boy told his father. "We got To one House where there was Five Secessionest And they broke and Run and Arch holoed out to Shoot the ornery Suns of Bitches [and we] all let go . . . at them . . . Thay may say what they...