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Word: preferred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they made a murderer out of him." Paul's father, Tony, had a more forceful view. "If it had been me out there, I would have swung my rifle around and shot Calley instead ? right between the goddam eyes. Then there would have been only one death." Others prefer not to face up to the implications of the affair. Says the company's Corporal William Kern: "I can't figure out why everybody is so upset. Especially Ridenhour, who wasn't even there. How can it bother you if you're not even there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...through the federal government. The government, he holds, is good at collecting revenues but bad at distributing services. Direct cash payments to the poor are more effective than what he calls "the monopoly strategy of services," because the government rarely provides what the poor really need. Since Republicans also prefer the income strategy to the services strategy, Moynihan has fitted surprisingly well in the Nixon hierarchy...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The City Moynihanism | 12/2/1969 | See Source »

...other newsmen in America. Every night the viewer votes with his channel selector; the Nielsen rating company tabulates the results. Just now, CBS's Walter Cronkite is ahead of Huntley-Brinkley 26 million viewers to 21 million. Despite Agnew's presumption that silent-majority viewers would prefer an alternative to CBS-NBC dovishness, viewer-voters leave Frank Reynolds (who publicly questioned last month's Moratorium) and hawkish Howard K. Smith far behind, with an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: AGNEW DEMANDS EQUAL TIME | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...declined to reveal how many students he would bring charges against. He said he would prefer to let the committee decide what policy it will follow on releasing information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rights Committee to Hear Charges Against Students Participating in Obstruction | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Most, but not all, of the dish washers do prefer plastic trays to metal ones. Plastic trays have been purchased for the South House kitchen where they were lacking. Additional plastic trays can and will be procured for other kitchens if they are needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunting Issues Reply To Charges by SDS | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

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