Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They couldn't take it. They couldn't take the discipline; they didn't like the system. They didn't like to take orders from younger professional officers. . . . They were unhappy that they didn't get a nice, new warship berth, but instead drew the amphibious force, or perhaps even a drab and dangerous LST. But worst of all, none of this group of "experts" was worked hard enough...
...Instead of talking about wages, what we want, and sticking to that, we are talking about prices and profits...
...Secretary Hull handed the Japs a ten-point counterproposal to the Nov. 20 ultimatum. The negotiations, as events eleven days later proved, were over. On Nov. 30 Churchill again urged the President by cable to warn the Japs that any further aggression would "lead immediately to the gravest consequences"; instead, Franklin Roosevelt sent his now-famous personal appeal to Emperor Hirohito...
...police, fearing another demonstration, refused to allow the Central University of Managua to hold ceremonies awarding Rios an honorary degree. Instead the police delivered the degree at the hotel...
Tiny, staunchly democratic Uruguay proposed a radical change in Latin American policy. Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Rodriguez Larreta suggested that the Americas drastically modify the dearest of all hemispheric principles: non-intervention by any one nation or group of nations in the domestic affairs of any American country. Instead, he advocated joint intervention against any nation which violates "the elementary rights of man and of the citizens." The Uruguayans had good reason to fear violators of democratic rights. Across the Rio de la Plata, the hard-booted Argentine colonels tramped and threatened...