Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Added. In accordance with U.S. policy of auctioning off instead of carting away unwanted supplies, the Air Force last summer sold 40 tons of surplus airplane lubricating oil to a Casablanca dealer. The dealer then sold the oil to 25 cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who posed as garage owners. The merchants mixed the bargain-price lubricating oil with olive oil in a 1-to-4 ratio that enabled them to boost by 75% their profit on the cheap cooking oil that the poorest Moroccan families use. Ready to cheat, if not perhaps intending what happened...
...Instead, Nehru made a counterproposal of his own, suggesting to the Chinese that the proper course "would be for you to withdraw from Longju" on India's northeastern frontier, and pledging that Indian troops would not then reoccupy the border post. As for Ladakh, in Kashmir, where the Chinese have seized some 9,000 square miles of Indian territory, Nehru proposed that Indian troops pull back to the west of the line that China claims is the boundary, while Chinese troops retire to the east of the line claimed by India...
...Center will not investigate topics such as segregation, Handlin commented, because either at present or in the past, they have been the focus of lengthy research. Instead, he said, the group will examine important areas which historians have previously neglected...
Harvard's new Director of Sports Information, Baaron Pittenger, endeared himself forever to Stadium press box inhabitants at half-time in the season's first encounter, when he distributed menus giving the writers a choice of six delicacies for their mid-game snack. Instead of the legendary soggy doughnuts, the sportswriters now had their pick of pizza, ham and cheese, and four other selections. This thoroughness in the relatively unimportant area of refreshments reflects the diligence with which Pittenger has attacked the monstrous problem of press relations and dispensation of information...
...together brilliance of acting, direction, and story. Perl, in adopting a technique of surface discontinuity of story, actually heightens the underlying continuity of emotion. Morris Carnovsky plays to perfection the role of a father who can't see why his son should want to go to a gentile school instead of following his tracks into the business. But his wife is determined, and Carnovsky's only strength seems to be his wit; this is sad since his wit is less honed than that of his wife, whose part is a bit overplayed by Sarah Cunningham. Carnovsky's magnificent outbursts take...