Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lakefront will be split by one hell of a yell: Lou Boudreau will have returned to Municipal Stadium and some 60,000 teary voices will rise together in protest that he should have never left. The average Cleveland baseball fan is funny that way; a sentimentalist, he would still prefer the Indians in the second division under Boudreau than on top (as they currently are) under somebody else...
Truman's argument gets its appeal from the fact that all sane men prefer peace to war and a small war to a big war. Truman's speech was constructed to give the impression that MacArthur was in favor of unlimited war while Truman was for limited...
...Pathetique" piano sonata-and they were married shortly after. He "detests" classical duets-"too rigid, too formal. I always hate my partner." He particularly detests Nijinsky's famous Le Spectre de la Rose. "Even if you dance it well, everyone says, 'Oh, Nijinsky!": Both Babilées prefer comic or dramatic ballets, "where we can act a part and play to each other...
...would prefer Manhattans or Martinis to highballs, she would drink 3.8 gallons of beer per academic year, and the college bulletin would claim that she also drank 255 quarts of milk in the same period...
...most commonly-mentioned source of "good experiences" at Vassar is the academic life, and good students have a better time than poor, though the grades themselves are not a deciding factor. Personal relationships are the keynote of satisfaction at Vassar, and students prefer to be treated by faculty as individuals, rather than as students of particular subjects...