Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Alberta's Norman Jaques (pronounced Jakes): "People need to be warned against insidious propaganda from [visiting U.N. employees]. . . . People [must] be on their guard against . . . adult education, world culture and science. [Men involved in such things] are drifting toward Communism, or totalitarianism if you prefer. It is not British; it is not Canadian, and finally it is not Christian. We are asked to give immunities to these people so that they may have the run of the country. No matter what they say or do, they will be above...
...made good chitchat for a nonelection year. But in 1948 Congressmen are likely to prefer to talk through the Congressional Record, where they can revise and polish their remarks. Anyway, as Delaware's Senator John Williams says, "Why make the country suffer...
Finland's present program is far from communization or even socialization. One extreme left-winger told me, crossly: "Even Finnish Socialists prefer to make small reforms in the existing capitalist system rather than change it for a new system." Said an industrialist: "Our Socialists are really very sound fellows. They are in the difficult position of having to talk a lot of socialization to attract the masses, without doing any real socializing...
Jazz music receives three types of treatment from writers today: 1) complete disregard from those who prefer not to "stoop"; 2) lofty head-patting from classical critics who think Louis Armstrong primarily a movie comedian; and 3) intelligent reporting by explorers who know whereof they speak...
...this northernmost commercial station in the Western Hemisphere is on the air only three nights a week, gives its only day programs Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Programs consist chiefly of records, most of them old numbers donated by Aklavikans. Eskimos and Indians, says MacLeod, like cowboy songs best; whites prefer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and boogie-woogie. Sundays the station airs one church service after another-some in Eskimo and varying Indian dialects...