Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ballot will include six or seven choices, such as whether or not to limit seconds on meat, to use margarine instead of butter, and to mix powdered milk with whole milk. There will also be a provision for students to indicate a preference of no changes...
...best, an evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails him for leaving "obscurantism to the esthetes." But it may be that what Sandburg is leaving to the esthetes is poetry itself. Aside from bits of writing that sound like Biblical commercials, Gorwin's commentary is serviceable. Helped by Guitarist Clark Allen...
This year the U.S. had hoped to make a sharp cut in its balance-of-payments deficit, which ran as high as $3.8 billion last year. Last week it looked as if the 1960 deficit would be around $3 billion, instead of the goal of $2.5 billion or less. Coupled with this big deficit is a current factor, the slowing of the U.S. boom and the talk of recession, which has caused the Federal Reserve Board to ease credit...
...schoolboy's definition. As an Anglican medical missionary on a Zululand tribal preserve. Barker has indeed prayed for (and among) his charges. As a district surgeon battling impossible disease with often inadequate tools, he admits to times when a life may have been shortened by his fumbling instead of lengthened by his skill...
...medical school, and they left for Zululand together in 1945. Their assignment was St. Augustine's station, founded in the 1880s by an archdeacon who had earned local fame as a healer with one modest improvement on witch doctors' methods: he routed out decayed teeth with pliers instead of a spear or rusty nail. The hospital was 40 miles from the nearest railway; when the Barkers took over, it was an iron-roofed bungalow compound inhabited by a poorly trained staff of nine, seven invalids, two cows...