Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth at Aqueduct. No, I think it is better just to write...
...Poppy & the Cricket. The fiesta committee scored its most resounding triumph with the return of the Bersaglieri, the proudest troops of Italy. The Bersaglieri wear plumes of cock feathers in their caps, run instead of march, and in Trastevere, which always had its own regiment, have been a tradition for almost 100 years. Since World War II, however, Trastevere's regiment had been quartered in Milan. With the opening of this year's feast, the first units of the old Trastevere Bersagliere regiment came home, ran heroically through the twisting streets blowing bugles while exuberant Trasteverini welcomed them...
Then Figueres announced that he would resign from the junta. Instead of returning to the contemplative life, he announced that he would form a new political party-Compactación Nacional (National Coalition)-and fight for his ideas. He would run for Vice President in next October's elections. In the interim between Figueres' resignation and the accession of beetle-browed Publisher Ulate, who assumes the presidency in November, stolid Interior Minister Fernando Valverde would act as chief of state...
...Burns stood posthumously revealed as a pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...
After writing his story, Neville had turned it over as usual to the Argentine post office for transmission to the U.S. Instead, the post office turned it over to General Arturo Bertollo, who as chief of the Argentine police was the target of the deputies' charges. Although Juan Perón insists that there is no censorship in Argentina,* his police chief had simply suppressed Neville's story...