Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally approve of these oddballs she goes out with," John Bernard ("Kell") Kelly Jr., the national sculling champion, said last year (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). He was referring to the foreign-born escorts his beautiful sister, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, seemed to prefer. "I wish," he added wistfully, "that she would go out with the more athletic type...
...Nescafé, young apartment dwellers talk about new cars and skin-diving. Out in the older collective settlements, where palm-shaded bungalows hedged by bright bougainvillea and hibiscus have long since supplanted the rude huts, basketball courts and swimming pools indicate that the new generation of native-born Israelis prefer sports to politics...
...scholarship," he continued, "Oppenheimer is one of our great physicists and a distinguished philosopher of science. He was declared loyal moreover, not only by the Atomic Energy Commission, but also by Mr. Conant, who presided over this University in the good old days which Mr. Ginn is said to prefer...
...Some Prefer Nettles, by Junichiro Tanizaki, gave U.S. readers the first real chance to sample the work of Japan's No. 1 living novelist. Delicate and skillful, it showed how traditional Japanese life became riddled by personal tensions after Western influences began to take hold...
Elder did not say, as reported, that a Group III man would make a better scholar and teacher than a Group I or II man. Rather, he said that the GSAS ought not invariably to prefer the Group I or II man, and that in a number of cases the lively and imaginative Group III man might turn out to be a better bet in the long...