Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Linebacking reinforced and personally carried out by former Jayvee Mel Freedman stopped Brown backs at the tackling point instead of three yards beyond. Only in the pass defense depart- ment did the Crimson show a weakness as Finn repeatedly flipped to Nelson between the zones of the Harvard backs...
...congressional attitude toward any European objections to U.S. interference in Europe's internal affairs was summed up succinctly in the crisp statement of an influential Democratic Senator: "Let them eat sovereignty then, instead of our dollars, if that's the way they feel about it." Europe would have to be saved on U.S. terms...
Stennis staged an unspectacular campaign. But his earnest speeches drew good crowds. He spoke out in favor of "the Southern way of life"; otherwise, he did not mention the subject of white supremacy. Instead, he talked about improving agricultural methods and backing the U.N. Said John Stennis, a teetotaler, a staunch Presbyterian and a family man (two children): "As a Senator ... I want to plow a straight furrow down...
...Illingworth paced restlessly. "We'll sail at 3 p.m.," he had said confidently the day before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
When Baziotes begins a painting he has no idea how it will turn out. "The subject matter may be revealed in the middle of the work," he explains, "or I may not recognize it until a long time afterward." Instead of starting with something in nature, he begins by doodling. Each morning he lines his doodles-in-progress up against the walls of his studio. "They are my mirrors," he says. "They tell me what I am like at the moment...