Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead, Abbott had to settle for a 10-5 decision, and Harvard had to settle for its first loss of the season...
...which was widely heralded as an important psychological resistance point, did not touch off any heavy selling. Still, brokers drew little comfort from that fact. Some would have preferred a burst of aggressive selling that might have cleaned out the pessimists and set the stage for a price rally-instead of the fairly steady, day-by-day erosion of prices on fairly light trading volume. Prices were weak principally because investors had the feeling that inflation was not being defeated and that the Government would have to continue strangling credit and pursuing other constrictive policies that risk a recession...
...industry grows up; Billy grows old. Sans hair, sans teeth, sans wives, sans everything, Billy Bright wanders from park bench to wheelchair replaying his memories to another burned-out star, Cockeye (Mickey Rooney). But Billy is no screen-size Pagliacci. Instead, he proves to be a garrulous embarrassment who keeps popping up on TV commercials and late-night talk shows. Audiences had thought him long dead; now they wish he were...
...Newark caterer named Walter Hollander (Jackie Gleason) and his family (Estelle Parsons and Joan Delaney) find themselves aboard a hijacked plane. Bound for Paris, it lands instead in Eastern Europe, where the Hollanders are charged with spying. "First no movie in the plane and now this!" moans the wife. "Nobody can be dragged out and shot," counters the suspicious junior American ambassador (Ted Bessell), "without written consent of the American Government." But from this intriguing negative nothing develops. Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward...
...just that discontinuity that Hind seeks to solve, finally turning away from the kidnap because he realizes that if he continues, he will have to use his friends as means, presenting them as exhibits in his case against the world. Instead, he resolves to start all over by pursuing them as ends in themselves -tracing out the lost person in each one, until the crime is uncovered and the child in each is freed...