Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SECONDARY BOYCOTT. "Take another company-let us say a furniture manufacturer. Instead of picketing the furniture plant itself [the union officials] picket the stores which sell the furniture this plant manufactures ... to make the stores bring pressure on the furniture plant. How can anyone justify this kind of pressure against stores which are not involved in any dispute...
...added $85 million to start boosting the U.S.'s intercontinental ballistic missile squadron strength from nine to 17, also $87 million to speed development of the second-generation, solid-fueled ICBM Minuteman. The Administration had wanted $260 million for a steam-powered aircraft carrier, but Congress said no, instead put up $35 million to cover advance planning on a nuclear-attack aircraft carrier. It added $137 million for the Navy's undernourished antisubmarine-warfare program. One congressional lapse from sound strategic planning: an added $73 million to keep the politically-powerful National Guard at 400,000 men instead...
...looked up to see the mushroom cloud," said Hotelman Paul Ryan. Instead he saw a 300-ft. pillar of flame. One squad car flew 100 ft., its dome light and driver cop left largely undamaged. Across the street from the truck, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. fell into a level pile of rubble. The Gerretsen store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were...
Miss Harris is the perfect pixie. With a toss of her head, or a shrug of her shoulders, she conveys the essence of boyish awkwardness. Her Peter is straightforward and innocent, and she seldom resorts to coyness. Consequently she avoids the pitfall of appearing too "cute," and is, instead, totally captivating and convincing. In short, she is Peter...
...through sacked and smoking Ireland accompanied by a saintly priest, helped by Irish guerrillas and making the customary hairbreadth escapes from gun and gallows. Author Macken brings such sweeping lyricism to this flight as to make it seem that plucky Dominick is battling his way the length of Siberia instead of the mere 100 miles from Drogheda to Galway...