Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist hopes in China's far Northwest. Last month 120,000 Reds under General Peng Teh-huai had chased an old Nationalist adversary, moody General Hu Tsung-nan, from the stronghold of Sian (see map). The way to rich Szechuan province and its famed capital Chungking seemed open. Instead, Communist Peng's men, thrusting on from Sian, rushed into a trap; it was the Chinese Red army's first defeat since the start of their all-out offensive...
...talk politics until tempers gave way and fists flew. Hoodlum gangs raced through the city, pasting posters, tearing down opposition signs, breaking up each other's soapbox meetings with shoes, brickbats, incendiary oil bombs, bursting bottles of nitric acid. A city ordinance banned loudspeakers, so electioneers shouted instead through megaphones, day & night...
...last week the price decline had already brought a $32.5 million-loss in this year's foreign exchange budget. The production cut also meant a fall of 1.8 billion pesos in the taxes that Chile collects on mine operations. "If this situation had presented itself in 1952 instead of 1949," sighed President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, "it would have been of no importance." But at a time when Chile's industrial development program (TIME, May 30) was still far from paying its own way, it was as important as life's blood...
...Anita Maxwell Gil '49, who would receive her degree summa cum laude in Romance Languages this morning if she were on hand to accept it. Instead, she's on her honeymoon with her husband, Peter...
There are no Eastern Intercollegiate titles riding on the outcome of the contest--Yale took care of that when it eliminated the Crimson from title contention Monday down at New Haven. Instead there will merely be half a century of Class Day baseball tradition to egg the players on, and the largest and most partisan crowed of the year installed in the venerable stands...