Word: instead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During their two stretches of solid play, the cagers displayed accurate shooting inside and came up with several steals off of an effective man-to-man full court press. Neither team bothered with much defense, relying instead on the fairly regular flow of turnovers...
...Press customers are still buying natty clothes, but not so many of them. "Instead of buying two suits and a jacket, someone will buy just a suit and a jacket," manager Joseph Porta said. "People don't know what the future will bring but they do know that we have an after-Christmas sale," he added...
...Instead of going to Bermuda, a guy's going to buy a new pipe," Piper said...
...those games that might have turned a season around with a dramatic win in hostile territory. Instead, it was a glum conclusion to the first road trip of the year. Harvard's record falls to 1-3; Fordham tallies its first win after two losses...
...only thing great about Katherine Graham portrayed here is her ability to create "myth that lived on as history, ad truth"--in other words, to lie and get away with it. How does the author support such an audacious accusation? Davis disdains hard facts and instead relies on her own presumptuous brand of psychology. "Once a widow, always a widow" Davis's primer seems to say; and Graham's pruported insecurities are accordingly traced to her prolonged grief over husband Philip's suicide. She plays the party line because she craves the approval of her Presidents...