Word: prefering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, von Stade pointed out, there are at present about 60 "forced commuters" (students who would prefer to live in the Yard, but were accepted on the condition that they live out). "Forced commuting is not a healthy situation," he noted, "and we should be able to eliminate it next year...
...reactions to journalism schools have mostly gone out of style with U.S. editors who no longer seem to fly into spike-throwing rages at the notion that the craft of journalism can be taught in any school except the school of pavement-pounding, doorbell-ringing experience. Most papers now prefer to hire the J-school graduate because he does have some practical experience, however limited, grafted on to a liberal arts education, however minimal. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Managing Editor Ed Stone expresses the prevailing attitude: "We hire the best man, whether he's had journalism training...
...reason that collectives do so badly is that peasants prefer to concentrate on their own cows and individual plots, which they are allowed as a sideline. Khrushchev wants to abolish this privilege. The people of his native village of Kalinovka, he said, last year "at my suggestion sold their cows to the collective farm . . . and, far from making out worse, have actually improved their material position." Their women were also freed, he pointed out, for more work on the collective. And in a significant echo of China's commotion, the Soviet Premier urged: "The time has come to organize...
...Overwhelmingly, children prefer thrillers to anything else. Programs aimed specifically at children (puppets, nature, animals) appeal only to the youngest...
...Children are least disturbed by serialized thrillers, such as westerns, in which the ritualized ending brings back the hero reassuringly after each episode. They enjoy being scared, but become uneasier by the degree to which they can place themselves in a drama. Some children prefer adult crime thrillers precisely because they seem less realistic. To children, daggers and sharp instruments are more scary than guns, a real-life prizefight more upsetting than a western's barroom brawl...