Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a youthful World War II veteran, bedeviled by a social conscience, threw up his hands in horror at the notion of joining the stuffy, conservative American Legion, trooped over to the American Veterans Committee instead. Not so one group of reform-minded Manhattan newspapermen. Last spring they organized the Duncan-Paris Post (named for two war casualties from the staff of Yank). They elected left-wing Marion ("See Here, Private") Hargrove as their first commander, impertinently began to heckle their Legion elders...
...Association . . . sets a precedent with dangerous implications. . . . The fact that many will applaud this action without thinking does not make it right. ... It will be a bad day for all of us when we allow our foreign relations to be directed by longshoremen, or any other group, instead of by responsible Government authorities...
Said Georges Bernanos: "Europe has not another fundamental reality today than the black market. ... It is becoming a civilization of hands, hands to beg, hands to take, to steal, instead of being a civilization of souls. Machines are such hands, the atom bomb is such a hand, formed to smash the world. Why have we a bomb to destroy a city in one minute and no machine to construct a city in the same time? . . . The world cannot be saved by machines or by popular masses. It can only be saved by free...
...military situation was reflected in the attitude of the Communist negotiators in Nanking. The Communists refused to participate in a five-man committee to discuss a coalition Government (i.e., a national council). Instead they suddenly proposed to discuss a cease-fire order through a three-man committee set up last January, dormant since June and now composed of General George Marshall, Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai and the National Government's General Hsu Yung-chang. By cease-fire the Communists meant the return to Communist control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They...
...seep through every once in a while, though. This week Dartmouth football publicity went overboard for a pair of ends, Mo Monahan and George Rusch, who, if you want to believe the written word, should both be out earning a living for their poor mothers with the Chicago Bears, instead of hanging around Hanover. Superlatives drip from a page and a half of purple prose, but before the final period was inscribed on the release, the more cautious of the writers had his covering sentence. "No matter how superior Holy Cross proves to be against a Dartmouth team that unquestionably...