Word: rather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME rather did goof...
Strategy, rather than dollars and cents, was the Commander in Chief's concern during the 2½-hour meeting with the military leaders. (Even as he prepared to confer with the President, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, in a speech read for him in Manhattan, opposed as "folly" sharp cutbacks in conventional forces.) Unlike last year, the military men were not asked to sign a public statement supporting the 1961 defense budget...
...Last week he got it-fried, "over easy." Far from wealthy (her husband is a journeyman plumber), Mrs. Culpepper had gambled $1,000 in legal expenses and $2,000 in medical bills to give the boy a chance for normal life. "My husband and I decided we'd rather have him than anything else." she explained, "so we just sacrificed." The sight of a healthy-looking Phillip (he will be three on Dec. 28), eating an egg and almost ready to go home, was their payoff...
Concluded the Alumni News: "Only a very few are thinking about getting out, yet only a few are smugly satisfied. There is, among these teachers, something of the attitude of the pioneer, of adventure rather than calculation. Many seem to have a conviction that there are worlds to conquer, and that, for the first time, there are means at hand to conquer them...
...young Associated Press reporter in Chicago, the whole business had an odd smell-or rather, lack of smell. It was during the blazing summer of 1933, and Ray Brennan, then 25 and covering one of his first big stories, was facing Swindler Jake ("The Barber") Factor, who claimed before reporters and the police that he had been kidnaped, held for twelve days in a basement and just released. Factor said he was still wearing the same clothes in which he had been kidnaped-but his shirt and suit were clean and only slightly wrinkled. And there was another strange thing...