Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shanghai's municipal government, noted for its frequent banquets, promptly took the cue. It called a meeting of the local New Life Movement, adopted the slogan "Early to bed, early to rise," pledged tea parties instead of feasts, with no serving of wine or "offering of cigarets." For officials who clasp austerity to their bosoms, the Movement proposed a medal of honor and laudatory notice in the public prints...
...measure found its defenders. Said one U.S. official: "At least the Germans won't be able to read Clausewitz these long summer nights." Said a Russian: "If more of them were out ploughing fields instead of reading, there would be more food." But most observers condemned the order as a piece of unenforceable foolishness which would only increase interest in the verboten books, and martyrize Germany's nationalistic spirit...
Reporting to the first Communist Party rally since the Reds' referendum defeat, Communist Secretary General Maurice Thorez sniped at his Socialist counterpart and late ally, Daniel Mayer: "Instead of making a common front with us against a reactionary offensive ... he prefers to break lances with 'bolshevism'. . . . These . . . tactics . . . will be deplored by all workers and anti-fascists...
Heavy Hand. Brazilian President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his military supporters, no lovers of Communism, were alive to its threat. But their answer had been crude, soldierly. Instead of slamming a cap on Brazil's runaway inflation (200-300%), linking wages to living costs, the Government had outlawed independent labor unions and suspended the right to strike...
...cannot afford the mistake ... of training too many for the professions and too few for other . . . functions in the economy. . . . We should thus give close attention ... to the possibility of developing a new intermediate group of technical institutes." Shorter than the four-year standard colleges, they would offer certificates instead of A.B.s and B.S.s...