Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instead of a simple distinction between premeditation and impulse, the amendment set up some more subtle definitions. It was first-degree murder if connected with robbery, burglary, rape, sex offenses, the death of a policeman or prison guard, the use of explosives. Repeated use of a slow poison, such as arsenic, would be a capital offense; but a single, lethal dose of prussic acid would be only second-degree murder...
When something goes wrong with rehearsals of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Antal Dorati doesn't take it out on the musicians. Instead, he is apt to tell them: "We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell." He goes into his dressing room, kicks things around for a while, then comes back glowing. The treatment seems to be as efficacious for his musicians...
...June 13, wrote Bigart, there was a knock at the door of his room in Belgrade's Hotel Moskva. "A young man of perhaps 20 ... pushed past me ... fell into a chair . . . 'Comrade,' he began, 'you had planned to return to Athens via Rome. Instead you will go via free Greece and interview General Markos. Is that agreeable?' Very tentatively, I said...
...Psychoanalysis is old stuff to the Catholics, of course. Only they do it on their knees for free, instead of on a couch at $10 an hour...
Manhood Regained. Instead of smelling out his mates and attacking them with bites, as Mr. Cain's earlier heroes did, Jack never once smells a girl; he responds to visual appeal. It is, in fact, at the point that he does not respond to it-when he has been riding the rails as a hobo for some months and a Petty girl strips and wiggles for him in a passing compartment -that he realizes he will have to do something (i.e., steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife...