Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Badgered by these problems, the Democrats had nearly let one gilt-edged security slip through their fingers. Instead of advertising their universally accepted, bipartisan foreign policy as a Democratic invention, they let the Republicans peddle it as their own stock issue...
...LeGrand, a dark-eyed, pale, intense man from the south of France. His theory: nothing is valid except sense experience, in which sex experience, being the most intense, is the most valid. Even the Sensorialists, however, claim that sex should have emotional justification, and therefore they preach "multiple love" instead of "free love." They claim that jealousy and possessiveness are sins; that marriage is enslavement; that fidelity is a mistake but constancy a good thing. The great idol of the Sensorialists is that 18th Century pervert and jailbird, the Marquis de Sade. Leader LeGrand is writing five autobiographical novels, called...
...with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao characters are written in a horizontal line instead of vertically like the Chinese...
Tsuyee Pel. Recalled last fall from a Government mission to New York, where his doctor had discovered a tuberculous spot on one lung, energetic Tsuyee Pei refused to be invalided, instead became a capable governor of the Central Bank of China. Scrupulously honest and immensely clever, Pei has brought 30 years of experience to bear on his nearly hopeless task, has failed to stabilize China's currency but at least has put brakes...
...unlike Stahl, who found himself graced with one of the country's aces in Wyndol Gray, the Coach finds himself with a group of men who, although good material, present he outstanding star to hold the team together. Stress will therefore be on ballhandling, layup shots, and close plays, instead of the more individualistic floor shooting and fancy dribbling that featured last year's five...