Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holiday!" snorted Winston Churchill as the Queen Mary brought him home from his nine weeks in the U.S. "It was as strenuous as a by-election." Furthermore, being a private person instead of a prime minister had made it "like fighting a battle in a shirt after being accustomed to a tank. . . . I've come home for a rest...
...Instead she won an International Chopin Prize in 1932, the Beethoven Prize of Vienna in 1933. She was in bombed-out Warsaw when it fell. The Gestapo agent who found her in the city's ruins tried to persuade her to go to Berlin to play for the Nazis. She refused and was sent to jail...
...screen sustains this mood with a generalized shot of the opposed camps, their fires like humiliated starlight. There are no creeping murmurs, neighing steeds, crowing cocks, clanking armorers. Instead, William Walton's score, one of the few outstanding scores in movie history, furnishes subdued, musical metaphors. Midway through the Chorus, the film boldly breaks off to interpolate, to better effect, a scene in the French camp which in Shakespeare's version precedes...
...more she pondered the fate of her native Tyrol, the more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...
Sears and Ward had long since gone into direct retailing with such vigor that, running more than 600 stores apiece, they were doing 60% of their business in them. But instead of going into general merchandising, where the giants were well entrenchedt Spiegel's started buying up specialty shops geared to its five mailorder departments-women's wear, children's wear, men's clothing and sporting goods, home furnishing, hardware-farm-auto supplies. The firm laid out $5 million for 100 outlets in 1944, $3.2 million for nine others...