Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Richard Nixon, is running miles ahead of any other presidential candidate of either party as the present choice of the voters, the Republicans are just as emphatically the minority party in the U.S. In a sampled nose count last week, the Gallup poll found that 56.2 million voters prefer the Democratic Party, 37.6 million like the Republicans, and 8.5 million are still undecided...
Many a tender nursery rhyme barely holds its own. At seven or eight, children tire of versions tied in pink and blue ribbons. They prefer...
...strengthen the College's division into intellectual have's and have not's, and because it deprives many students of an educational opportunity from which they might benefit greatly. Many of the students who leave the Honors program do so, not because of incapability or laziness, but because they prefer to follow interests they consider more rewarding than academic specialization. But tutorials opportunities for informal discussion and close contact with a tutor can profit these students as well as those in honors...
Though domestically produced goods in Europe and Japan tend to be cheaper and better tailored to national tastes than most heavily taxed U.S. imports, some governments may even prefer to see real competition in some fields, e.g., textiles, rather than U.S. retaliation against their own dollar exports. Another effect of quota relaxations may be to prompt U.S. manufacturers to design goods specifically for European markets. Competition, said Antoine Pinay, is "the best of stimulants and the most effective of disciplines...
...curious sense of moral vacuum in many of the pictures. Aside from a general distaste for bourgeois respectability and a slight leaning toward the left, very few of the films express any moral or spiritual convictions whatever. Nevertheless, Les Vaguistes have their principles. They hate commercialism. They prefer to make pictures on subjects of their own choice. They would rather use unknown actors. "They speak of cinema," says one critic, "as of a religion.'' So far, it seems to be a religion in which demons figure more prominently than angels, but so long as the new cult...