Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What then? Each occupying army would be compelled to cooperate with such local forces as can be found. . . . The United Nations would probably prefer and would certainly consent to deal with Germany as one. But the almost inevitable result of Hitler's own present 'last-ditch' policy, if carried through to the end, would be that the Union of Germany, which has been a determining factor of Europe's destiny for three-quarters of a century, would pass away. The next chapter would be a new one for Europe as well as for the Germans...
Mind you, I am proud and grateful to be a bridge expert. Spinoza used to grind lenses to earn a living, and I prefer to grind bids and plays. Bridge, as you know, is not only my hobby but my bread and butter, as well...
...country will be kept in a state of siege until the Germans and their Dutch collaborators are purged, the war with Japan finished; 3) when conditions permit, in the Queen's and Cabinet's view, the people will vote for the kind of government they prefer...
...general who assigned the actors to two weeks' detached duty. The time was extended again & again. The show is not officially recognized and the men have no travel orders. But because others want to see them, the Air Transport Command flies them in to the lonely places. They prefer playing such places because they lived at one themselves, and they know...
...hundred times more likely that further classicists will prefer to make use of the authentic racial blues or jazz to achieve a nationalistic American music, just as Dvorak and Gershwin have in the past. Yes, swing is typical of a part of America--the part that is commercial and superficial, the part that is cafe society. By its very nature a compromise to public taste, it never reaches to the roots of American society, as do jazz and ragtime, since the general public always prefers to gloss over its roots...