Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the West stopped talking to Moscow about the Berlin crisis. Instead, it started talking to the world. In Paris, George Marshall, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman gravely announced that the Soviet Government had made further negotiations impossible; consequently they were taking the issue of the Berlin blockade to the United Nations...
...review board may have found some compelling reason for reducing Use's sentence, but if it had, Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall did not reveal it. Instead, he agreed that the evidence had proved that Use "encouraged, aided and participated" in Buchenwald's operation, but lamely justified the sentence reduction with: "There was no convincing evidence that she had selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins, or that she possessed any articles made of human skin...
...boiled a ground squirrel shot by Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...
...George L. K. Morris contributed an abstraction as tasteful as any in the show, though it demonstrated how academic abstractionism can get. Entitled New Year's Eve on Broadway, it might almost have been painted 30 years ago-on Montmartre-if the signboards had read Vin and Tabac instead of Four Roses and Camels...
When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...