Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearing on the "One World" program, Fairbank said that a "doctrinaire type of thinking" tended to over-simplify the problem of revolution in China. Instead of handing out short-sighted aid, we must adept the long-term view of supporting a liberal movement that would remove the necessity for communism in China, he said...
...became very real, the British threw in what Washington has so often in the past considered the final, unanswerable weapon--the troops. The response was immediate, and directly adverse to what Americans, judging from past faith in the efficacy of olive drab uniforms and bayonetted rifles, would consider natural. Instead of calling the men back into the driver's seat, the truckers felt disposed to shout "Blacklegs!" at the Tommies who were learning a new twist to the King's service. Hopping mad, the Union began bellowing for a general strike to end the "betrayal" by its own national leaders...
...William Randolph Hearst on his editorial page, made a deal with the old lord of San Simeon. For selling Steve Canyon, Hearst's King Features Syndicate got first rights to run the new strip in all Hearst papers outside Chicago (including the tabloid Mirror in New York, instead of Field's small...
Child of Liberty. Sir Timothy Shelley, Bart., had hoped that his son would get comfortably to Parliament and stand for Reform. Instead, Percy took direct action against what he conceived as oppression, social and personal, by marrying a pretty schoolgirl who didn't want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth...
...production; March and Andrews are especially good. This reviewer would have enjoyed the picture a bit more if it had featured Russell's psychological, rather than mechanical, triumph over his artificial hands, and if, in another scene, it had met a bigot's intolerance with an argument instead of a punch. But these are are minor imperfections in a picture whose freshness and sincerity are as warmly satisfying as a cigarette after breakfast...