Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead, the curtain had gone up on a slow first act in which Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader Scott Lucas had run off one or two minor legislative routines. The pace should have been brisk; it was slow, and as the act proceeded, it got slower. That could be explained by the necessity of getting things organized. But the author, for one, believed that the trouble might be deeper than that. Last week he sailed on stage to charge that someone, in fact, had rewritten part of his show...
Ivanov continued: "I committed everything knowingly . . . What inspired me to all this was fear-fear and faulty orientation regarding Communism ... It was my conviction that the Communist leaders must be suffocated and paralyzed . . . I expected the Communists to treat me severely, but they instead gave me this opportunity to lift the curtain...
There were none of the boisterous des-camisado parades and mass meetings which have usually marked the great day. Instead, hardly a newspaper appeared throughout all Argentina to remind the workers what day it was. To protest the government's failure to settle the three-week-old strike of Buenos Aires' newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21), printers had chosen that day to call a nationwide stoppage...
...authorize a 3,000-mile guided-missile range (TIME, Feb. 28). They say that the White Sands range (150 miles long) is already much too small. This week's feat proved it. If the two-stage rocket had been fired at the proper angle for maximum range, instead of nearly straight up, the WAC Corporal would probably have landed something like 500 miles from the firing point...
...case was reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Detroit Allergist George L. Waldbott. For 18 years Dr. Waldbott has been studying cases of fatal shock following shots of serums. The Detroit woman, he explains, was accidentally pierced in a vein (instead of a muscle) by the hypodermic needle. The penicillin was absorbed too rapidly into a system already sensitized to penicillin by previous injections...