Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tami had been quicker on the trigger, he might have followed up his advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...
...Bess Wilson, these spare-time journalists are no Helen Hokinson characters. "These women are hard workers . . . and they're alive to the forces around them." But she did wish that they'd learn to spell, stick to facts instead of gossip, and get their copy in while it was news...
...Hall, the 150-man House of Bishops sat in maple chairs before rough little tables-an impressive phalanx of white hair, black clothes and informal dignity. Into their hands last week was put the nettle of Episcopal-Presbyterian union. The lower House of Deputies had refused to grasp it, instead had gingerly pushed it aside by voting: 1) to keep for another three years the Joint Commission on Unity, and request it to draft a new basis of union; 2) to ask the Presbyterians to produce a similar document; 3) to call for a standing commission on Church Unity...
...bishops' palms were no tougher than the deputies'. In two hours of debate they passed the lower-house resolution with but one mild amendment (to ask the 1948 Lambeth Conference for "advice & counsel" instead of a new commission...
...empty airplane hangar in New Orleans, WAA opened its own department store to sell to veterans only. Instead of the usual red tape (some 28 steps from original application to final sale), veterans who came to buy had only to show proof of discharge...