Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, instead of going to church ("it creates such a disturbance"), he stayed home and read the Sunday papers. Then he drove back to Grandview, and at the little airport said goodbye to his family. Reaching up to kiss him, his mother got in a final word: "You be good, but be game, too." The hometown weekend was over...
...successful had the gamble been, said MacArthur, that within six months the occupation force might number 200,000 men instead of the scheduled...
...military hospital, Tojo explained why he had tried to kill himself with a pistol instead of by traditional harakiri: he had had no aide (kaishaku) to stand by and strike off his head with a two-handed sword after he had slit his abdomen with a ceremonial dagger. In some recent Japanese pistol suicides a kaishaku with a pistol stood by to blow out the suicide's brains. Said Tojo: "I did not want to mess up my head...
Although Chief Salgado so far disclaims any intention of reforming what was once a militant political body, opponents saw that a Christian Democratic Party embodying Integralist principles was on the way. Instead of the old slogan, "God, Country and Family," Integralist leaders would shout, "Christ and the Nation." And the propaganda organ would be a new and well-named weekly, Reaçâo Brasileira (Brazilian Reaction), edited by Pedro Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, one of the followers of Nazi-loving ex-Police Chief Felinto Muller...
William Randolph Hearst wants his papers run his way. Instead, Lou Ruppel swung out on his own, started a civic clean-up campaign which blasted Chicago as a "dirty shirt town." The Chief summoned Ruppel, ordered him to tone it down. When Ruppel played up Ernie Pyle's death, he was dressed down for overpublicizing "our rival" (Pyle wrote for Scripps-Howard), even though the rival was dead. And when Ruppel tossed out Hearst's dearly beloved top-of-the-page red headlines, oldtime Hearstling Robert Wiley was rushed to Chicago to "breathe more Hearst into the paper...