Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, too, a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats tirelessly pecked and burrowed away at Harry Truman's Fair Deal, item by item. Last week the item was rent control. The Administration wanted it extended until March 1951. Republicans argued instead for a wait-&-see extension to run only until July 1. Dixiecrat E. E. ("Goober") Cox of Georgia was blunter: "Continue controls for 90 days and then have the whole thing thrown out the window...
...Socialist Britain was a "fool's purgatory," millions of Britons were the fools. They liked it-at least they liked it better than what they thought the Tories would give them. As the anti-Socialist Economist recently said: "Instead of standing forth as the champions of wise and vigorous government [the Tories] have allowed themselves, by talking in generalities about abstract principles such as 'freedom' and 'enterprise,' to be represented as the captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British...
Published in two installments, Barth's essay might disappoint those who were looking for a stiff workout in theology. Instead he served up a chattily informal account of his past ten years (even including an operation for hernia). But among the trivia are passages of larger interest...
Actually, the orchestra's fate was in a mortal lap. Next season, the orchestra's 38-year-old First Cellist Howard Mitchell will be wielding the baton instead of the bow. Handsome Howard Mitchell might need some Olympian help at that, however, since there were indications that it might not be forthcoming from some of the usual backers of the orchestra. One ardent Kindler supporter, who chipped in $41,000 for the orchestra last year, had pointedly limited himself to $10 in his first contribution this year...
When dark-eyed, fast-moving Violist Garry A. White, 36, took over as director of the conservatory in 1945, he knew exactly what he wanted: a conservatory to train 1960 musicians instead of the 1900 variety...