Word: preference
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...mail, or maybe it's that he has someone else to open his mail for him. Or perhaps it's just that he's forgotten what pays its own way, and what doesn't. And we won't even say anything about Henry Luce. But as for us, we prefer mail from Philadelphia, or even New York, and wish that bulk mail could be discouraged...
...billion. The surplus would not go to a tax cut, but to cut down the $290 billion national debt. The President added an unfamiliar note: "Personally I do not feel that any amount can be properly called a surplus as long as the nation is in debt. I prefer to think of such an item as reduction on our children's inherited mortgage...
...hedge is advisable, for most Russian parents need persuasion. Despite the Communist edict that mothers stick to bearing and let the state do the rearing, Russians prefer more ancient practice-and so do their preachers. Khrushchev's own grandchildren are not in boarding schools, nor are those of his Kremlin colleagues. Most boarding-school children are enrolled because of special circumstances, e.g., overlarge families. Russians able to support their children do not easily surrender them, and the millions of Russians who still place God above Marx may never do so. By this year's end, Russia will have...
...occasions. Instead of providing a quadrennial forum of intelligent discusison of the nation's problems, the Presidential election usually degenerates into a puerile contest between rival slogans and personalities, with the real issues thrust aside as fit topics only for columnists and professors. The people seem to prefer well-meaning mediocrity to well-reasoned policy...