Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixed-blood) voters of Cape Province of their direct franchise. The government already has passed a law compelling the Cape's colored voters to appear before an electoral officer, magistrate or police officer to prove that they can actually write their names and addresses. Since most colored citizens prefer to steer clear of race-baiting Nationalist police officials, the effect of the new law will be to disfranchise thousands...
...noteworthy criticism came from Belgium. Wrote Brussels' Communist Drapeau Rouge: "Belgian soldiers loathe Buckingham Palace parades. They are afraid Montgomery might force them to eat that horribly cooked British food." The U.S. was known to prefer General Juin; and Juin, who used to be General de Gaulle's chief of staff, flatly refused to serve under the proposed setup...
Southern papers still prefer War Between the States to Civil War. During the Spanish Civil War, a New Orleans Times-Picayune copy-desker wrote with tongue in cheek, "The Spanish War Between the States." Few Southern papers will Mr. a Negro in print; some steadfastly refuse to capitalize Negro...
...there was no mistaking his interest in Marilyn Miller, the loveliest Ziegfeld girl of them all. "I would prefer," wrote Billie, "to think that Flo was merely fascinated by Marilyn Miller, but ... he idolized...
Voice: "Of all your works, which is the one you prefer...