Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Elpido Quirino had $2,000,000 to use for the social welfare of the pesty Hukbalahaps if they behaved themselves. Instead the Huks broke out in new rebellion against the government and clashed with the army at several points north of Manila...
...they voted Demo-Christian last spring. When the electoral results became known, local Demo-Christians told them of the government's financial difficulties and the need for patience, so the people of Arsoli modified their request. Instead of begging for a pump which would cost 12 million lire (about $21,000), they declared themselves ready to wait, so as not to throw an excessive financial burden on the government...
Last week, 90 days later, Kaleidoscope's voluptuous maiden issue (372 high-styled pages plus a sensuous blue-green cover) appeared. Overnight the monthly became the talk of the trade. Aimed at fashion executives instead of their customers, it was a "multiple magazine" with 15 departments (for cosmetics, coats, lingerie, etc.), each with its own editorial and advertising sections...
...chief contribution that the Mexican muralists (Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera) made to modern art, Chariot thinks, was in emphasizing "communal" painting, simple and clear in theme, instead of individual expression. "Perhaps," he says, "Mexico will point Europe back to the forgotten way." In Colorado, Charlot has put his own students to work on a gigantic fresco of the fall of Jericho, to "keep them, out of mischief for months at a time, and help them understand that teamwork is important and that originality is not all-important...
...wife, Zohmah, is a trim, dark lady who was raised in Brigham City, Utah, and abandoned the name of Dorothy Day after getting acquainted with Mexico as an art student. "When I married Jean," she confesses, "I thought 'I'm going to be an intellectual,' but instead he's taught me to read detective stories...