Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons last week could only hope that the Ghost of Christmas Present would provide a transformation for them, as it had for Scrooge. Instead, they chuckled grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this...
Life on $1 a Day. But go instead to the house of, say, a streetcar conductor about 10:30 p.m., when most Madrilenos eat dinner. Ask your host, who earns less than $1 a day, to show you his week's ration of food at controlled prices. He can put it in a soup plate. His wife may serve to a guest the best dinner they have had in weeks-soup with meat and noodles, a dish of chickpeas, cabbage and sausage, with an orange for dessert. To buy that meal for four people, he had to spend...
...Jean Jaurès Hall to hear stooped, 63-year-old René Cormaud, who "does" the rue des Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter on the sidewalk. That way they give the profession a bad name...
...Instead, Chiang might try to win Marshall's support in a way more realistic than that suggested by the Truman statement. A democratic constitution democratically drafted would give the U.S. a chance to revise its policy and move closer to wholehearted cooperation with Chiang. As if he recognized that opportunity, Chiang last week appeared in dramatic opposition to ideological reactionaries in his own party in China's National Assembly...
...serve sizzled over the net. Aggressive as ever, California's Kramer scrambled in behind his serve and put away shots with overhand smashes and light teasers. He still had one fault to work on: his forehand drives were floating instead of zipping. But he-beat Teammate Frank Parker in two quick sets and said, "Boy, it feels good to be hitting them again." If he kept on hitting them, he could spoil a big Christmas Week for confident, sport-crazy Australia...