Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unarmed, except for a silver-handled dagger. He asked a wide-eyed question: "Why do you disturb the rest of a devout Moslem in the heat of the day during Ramadan?" Then he hurled a taunt: "Why are you not enrolled in the ranks of the army instead of a mob? Transjordan is my heart, and my mission is to save both Transjordan and Palestine." The mob melted away. To the world he said: "The way to settle ... is to negotiate...
...struck oil. The Rev. J. Henry Hardeman's Corinth Baptist Church was about to move from San Antonio's East Side to a new site. Mrs. Starr persuaded Hardeman that the $39,000 building fund should be used to turn the old church into a hospital instead. She put up her own $44,000 for equipment...
...that nobody in the world appreciates a really enterprising man. He might have expected cheers for his latest ambitious project: to put a full-length Technicolor record of this summer's Olympic Games on the world's screens within a bare three weeks of the last event. Instead, the predominant noise was a squawk from other moviemakers, shut out of the Olympics when Rank paid ?25,000 for exclusive film (and television) rights. By last week, however, with Rank's announcement of final arrangements, everyone calmed down...
Miss Dietrich, at her best, is a past mistress of sardonic comedy and of low-life glamor, and if this picture really handled what it pretends to, she could probably have done herself proud; instead, she is required to sing such pseudo-bitter cabaret ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur used to have a nice knack for comedy; now & then it still clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky...
...told the household gravely: "only see ... that they sound Italian, and, most important, that nobody understands them"). He loved his school, where he personally taught the children of his farm hands; but most other forms of "progress" horrified him-e.g., the novelty of using kerosene in lamps instead of good old fat, the creation of a Russian parliament ("perfectly absurd"), colleges and careers for women (except where "help is needed in large families"), the cleaning up of years of weeds and garbage from around his mansion ("I don't understand . . . We were getting on very well without this...