Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife-conqueror of the eternal Siva, the dancer. Not in Kali's name were the 100,000 killed. The Moslems despised her as a wretched idol. The Sikhs* ignored her. Even most Hindus no longer participated in the rites of Kali's priests, who dismembered goats (in lieu of human victims), spraying the blood upon worshipers crowded in fields of which Kali was mother, fructifier and scourge. Nevertheless Kali, the Black One, could stand as symbol (or perhaps as scapegoat) for the horror that had walked hand in hand with bright liberty into India...
...companies were accused of adding to their base prices-in lieu of actual freight, shipping and switching charges-an arbitrary amount, "automatically arrived at with mathematical precision" by a formula provided by the steel institute. Even though cheaper truck or water transportation might actually be used, the formula allegedly bases delivery prices on all-rail freight and assesses arbitrary "switching charges." The result, said FTC, is the same as if "all mills were under one ownership and control...
...strengthened the thin Liberal majority in the House of Commons (now 127 seats against 117 for the combined Opposition). It also seemed to indicate a brightened party future. The Liberals, after three by-election defeats in a row, now had won two straight (in Cartier and in Riche-lieu-Verchères last December). In Ottawa, Liberal masterminds sighed with relief...
Further reforms call for open meetings in the Houses and in the Union, primarily to nominate a slate for Council elections, but serving a double purpose in giving publicity to Council reports and decisions. The proposed constitution also provides for nominating committees in lieu of a 25 percent quorum in the Houses or a ten percent quorum in the Union...
...more bluntly. If the U.S. would not concur, he said, then Britain should dump the matter into the U.S.'s lap and get out of the country. That would effectively answer those who think that Britain is hanging on to Palestine as a military base in lieu of Egypt...