Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pinned yet another Gold Star, in lieu of a third D.S.M., on famed Admiral "Bull" Halsey...
...annual salary of $2,500, second highest of any state.* But in New York, as in most legislatures, there are ways of eking out such a meager sum. For years, the men in Albany's hideous State Capitol have voted themselves and their friends odd petty sums "in lieu of detailed itemized expenditures." In time this custom came to be known to legislators and correspondents as "the wonderful lulu system...
After two years of fist-shaking and name-calling in lieu of clarity of purpose, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week left off shuffling papers and got around to applying the second* faltering economic sanction against Argentina: he barred U.S.-flag ships from calling at Argentine for northbound cargo...
Last week Bus Miller was back in the U.S. to become the blushing recipient of two more medals: gold stars in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Flying Cross, and a fourth Air Medal. Miller now wears ten decorations. His new assignment: a training job in San Diego. His one object in life is "to get this damn war over and get home to my children." He has five in Jacksonville...
...younger days, dismissed it all as "witticisms." De Gaulle got his colonelcy at a reasonably early age (47), but that was poor comfort. Just before the Germans fell upon France, he wrote one last memorandum, warning of the danger in trusting to the forests around Sedan in lieu of proper defenses. Nobody paid attention. Frustrated, agonizingly sure of what was to happen, equally sure that he might have saved France, Charles de Gaulle went into battle...