Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates sat down at banquet tables. When speeches began, not a voice spoke up for the militarists. Instead came a barrage of bitter denunciations. Leader after leader lambasted Perón and his Government. The worst blow came from Brother Eduardo Teisaire, who cried: "There are no Argentines in Government House...
Glossy-haired, 46-year-old Dancer-Choreographer Massine, a veteran of at least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted...
...weeks Doyle could not turn in bed. First, he concentrated on trying to move his fingers. After many days he managed to move his right thumb, then the index finger, then the whole hand. When he tried to bend his elbow, he found that he had lost coordination: instead of tightening one muscle and relaxing its opposite, he tightened both. One day, in answer to a nurse's question, he tried to shrug his shoulders, was startled because only one shoulder shrugged. But he learned to shrug both shoulders, to bend his arm, and (after practicing daily...
...last week finally laid down, for the world to see, its postwar international air policy. The policy: regulated competition on international routes, instead of a chosen instrument. Without waiting any longer for Congress to act, President Truman approved the choice of the Civil Aeronautics Board for airlines to fly the Atlantic. As expected (TIME, July 9), the routes were granted to Pan American Airways, Transcontinental & Western Air, and American Export Airlines; American Airlines got permission to buy control of American Export Airlines...
...from one of those mysteriously incurable diseases which in filmdom carry off their perfectly healthy victims with stopwatch accuracy at curtain time. Ivy's inevitable wedding steeps all four principals in a maudlin effusion of unspoken nobility aimed at sending the audience out with a lump instead of a laugh in its throat...