Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...everyone saw it that way. Lansky's first goal was to muster support from some of the large Jewish organizations with headquarters in New York City. "They all said the same thing: 'Yiddish is dead. Forget it.' " He refused to. Instead, he resolved to scratch along on whatever he earned, and packed off to Maine to work as a migrant blueberry picker for the summer. He made ( enough to have stationery printed. "I had a picnic table and a Government- surplus typewriter. I sat down and started putting out press releases saying, 'If you have old books lying around, send...
...decades long and whose name had been cried out like a victory chant in the same Wenceslas Square the night before. Havel noted the achievement of 1989 by paraphrasing 17th century theologian Comenius -- "Your government, my people, has returned to you" -- but his speech was the antithesis of triumphalism. Instead, it was a bracing recitation of urgent needs, an inventory of the damage done to the spirit by 40 years of communist rule and an exhortation for reform...
...sound of squad-car sirens audible over his open phone line. They arrived too late to save Carol Stuart, 30. Her son Christopher was delivered by Cesarean section but lived for only 17 days. Hospitalized for more than a month, Stuart did not attend his wife's funeral. Instead, he wrote a farewell letter to her that was read at the service: "I will never again know the feeling of your hand in mine, but I will always feel you. I miss you, and I love...
...audience is given no opportunity to appreciate the show for what it could be. Instead, the cast--especially the emcees--seem to be giving a nod and a wink to the audience, saying: "We know this show is silly and dated, but, hey, we're enjoying ourselves...
Overt sexism is no longer the primary reason that few women hold faculty positions, fellows and faculty members say. Instead, they say, the problem stems from subtle forms of discrimination and the efforts at accommodation women feel they must make if they are to succeed in what some still consider a man's world...