Word: preference
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bandleader Ted ("The Guy with the Trombone") Heath thought that "Christ would prefer [the] state of mind" of teenagers who frequent dance halls "to that of some of their elders-and so-called betters-who are seen more often in church . . . Teenagers have their faults. Some drink too much. Some don't love their parents as they should . . . But all this could be put right by a teacher with a spark . . . If it were the best way to reach everyone . . . then I think Christ would even appear on television...
...raise living standards by fostering economic development. Thailand and the Philippines would like to get preferential economic treatment for having signed the treaty. The British, who are already, through the Colombo Plan, giving economic aid to Asian nations (India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon) irrespective of their political color, prefer to continue that way. The U.S., too, prefers to distribute its own aid unilaterally...
...sound "dead" and pipes it into a reverberation chamber to liven it up again. But there is now a sharp division of opinion on what is a "faithful" recording. Some sound men believe in much clipping of flawed passages and splicing in better ones from other takes. Others prefer to capture the heat of an inspired performance despite some imperfections...
...offend the sensitive by defending the disgraceful bill he introduced into the Senate last summer which would have saved us from Communism by sending every pitiable old woman in the open party to prison for five years as a conspirator. You would think it was something a man would prefer to forget, but Humphrey glories in it. His conduct is a rather extreme [example] of what has become a habit pattern for most of our liberal paladins. None get better, some get worse, and the best of them earn what credit they deserve by standing still. That is why Harry...
...military prowess." If they did, the ladies would "point out that soldiers' calves are slender and their feet of modest dimensions, whereas [the businessman's] calves are fat." The courting gentleman was also faced with courtly dilemmas. Asked, for example, which half of his lady he would prefer to have if she were divided in two at the waist, it is fruitless to plump piously for the top half (in hope of being rewarded with the lower) because the lady would only point out coldly "that the foundations of a building are more important than the upper storeys...