Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make matters worse, Hearst met rising production costs by cutting down on news coverage in the face of exhaustive, conscientious coverage by the Tribune. How much Hearst lost in Oakland, no Hearstling would say. (A healthy chunk went to cover severance pay, vacations, and two weeks' pay in lieu of notice.) But the loss was big enough so that no one was likely to start up another paper to challenge the monopoly of the Tribune...
...over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission. It was a storefront, and seeing we were doing repair work he thought we might need someone, as he was a paper-hanger." In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife...
...Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
Rotting corpses, noisome reminders of Mussolini's sordid victory, littered the Ethiopian bush. It was treacherous country at best, full of crocodiles and hostile tribesmen-certainly no place for an Ital ian soldier to go wandering. But the lieu tenant had a bad tooth. He had to get to an army dentist, and a short cut through the bush would cut his traveling time in half...