Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead of worrying about producing "religious illiterates," let us concern ourselves about producing men & women who are wise in the ways of science and wise to the bigotry of supernatural nonsense...
...tighten the bill with amendments restricting industrywide bargaining and requiring all union welfare funds (such as the U.M.W.'s) to be administered by employers as well as union officials. But he had backed down on his amendment allowing employers to go directly to a federal court for injunctions, instead of through the NLRB...
After a visit to Flushing Meadow and the United Nations General Assembly, Señior Mike went back to his Manhattan hotel for what was supposed to be a restful weekend. Instead, he took his son, Miguel Jr., 14, for a half-hour subway ride, toured Rockefeller Center, lunched with Mayor Bill O'Dwyer at Gracie Mansion. This week he hit the road again, going first to West Point, then to Tennessee and Alabama to look over TVA, then to Kansas City (to visit an experimental farm, get another degree). Then home...
...cavorting. The London News Chronicle's James Cummings, usually sympathetic to Labor, dourly commented: "It was of the utmost importance that such a measure should be thoroughly debated, clause by clause, and that it should be made to stand the test of every sort of criticism. . . . Instead of that, the Government, by the wholesale use of the guillotine apparatus, turned Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons. . . . One can see that it has given the Tories a stronger argument for their case that Labor means...
Until the kids got started, prices in Canada were like the weather-everybody talked about them, nobody did anything. But in the Vancouver Island sawmill town of Chemainus (pop. 1,753), the youngsters put their heads together. Instead of candy bars (up to 8? since the April 2 decontrol) they agreed to buy ice cream cones, which were still a nickel. Youngsters from eight to 18 picketed stores. "Don't be a sucker-don't buy eight-cent bars," their signs read. "Let the suckers pay eight cents...