Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election now stood out like very sore thumbs: 1) labor voted in droves against the Taft-Hartley law and worked quietly but feverishly to sell the Democratic ticket to everyone in sight; 2) many farmers, who had been expected to vote Republican as usual, voted for Harry Truman instead. Between them they caught the Republicans in an implacable crossfire...
...meetings in Paris, word that Tom Dewey had conceded came just as delegates were voting on the rights of non-self-governing territories. Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky were so startled that (until they corrected themselves) they both voted yes instead of no. "Amazing, amazing," was all Vishinsky could...
...thought about the nature of the universe, I have decided that there is but one course for a man of conscience and honesty to take. But being what I am, I can't face asking Miss Handy to take over my job starting Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Instead, I'll make a base compromise and say that her letter is completely, unequivocally right...
...suggest that she ponder the paradox of stories being harder to follow than Dick Tracy when they have less substance, which is often the case. And if she can go on from there to make the stories that do have substance as easy to follow as their content allows, instead of the opposite, Signature will become worth reading, and people will begin to buy it. Just the way they buy the funny-papers. Or Hamlet...
...other two. "Perchance To Dream" is chiefly a dialogue piece, in spirit a combination of Noel Coward, James Thurber, and Evclyn Waugh. Here again a good editor would have made a big difference. The dialogue in places is poor, and no good editor would let Mr. Rinchart write instead of a simple "he said," such things as he started, he snarled, she snapped, she giggled, said the man evenly, and said the woman triumphantly. Ring Lardner once wrote a satirical story in which every character always said things with a lordly snort, or with an easy sneer. Mr. Rinchart should...