Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prefer Death." The Military Assistance Program (M.A.P.) faced a far harder fight and a closer vote than the North Atlantic Treaty (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Opponents of the arms plan say that it will cost too much, and that it might provoke Soviet Russia to attack. The plan's advocates reply that a Communist victory in Europe would be far more expensive for the U.S., and that Soviet Russia is provoked to aggressive acts by the weakness, not by the strength, of the non-Communist world...
...finance minister objected hotly on the grounds that this might entail breaking contracts with U.S. businessmen. "Do you prefer to break contracts or break the sterling area?" Cripps demanded...
...interests Researcher McDavid. The Scotch Irish, for example, brought along their favorite cow-call, sook, sook, when they came to the U.S. McDavid has traced sook, sook across Pennsylvania to the Alleghenies, then down the Shenandoah Valley as far as Lexington, Va. Many more farmers, especially in New England, prefer co-boss, co-boss...
Concerned also for their thriving business in new barrels, Kentuckians threatened to legislate their own state definition of aged whisky if the ruling stood. Such matters are actually pure custom; the Scotch prefer used sherry casks...
Selective Service. In Little Rock, Ark., when Civil Service Commission officials explained to a job applicant that positions were limited to those with "veterans' preference," the woman admitted that she was not a veteran or married to one, "but I sure prefer them...