Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...bill to boost the pay of federal employees by 20%. He worked away at a tough-toned special message, to be sent to Capitol Hill this week, calling upon Congress to resist election-year spending temptations, reject budget-straining welfare bills, and enact his own less costly proposals instead...
Genial George Allen had no comment on Truman's story. Instead, he helicoptered off to Gettysburg with Ike for a weekend of golf...
...their food production by a breathtaking 50% in five years as an example to the rest of the nation. If the scheme works and its lessons are gradually applied to other areas, India's total food grain output should rise to at least no million tons by 1966 instead of the 80 million tons expectable at present rates of production...
Slogans & Guests. Though full-page ads in the government press called for 1,500,000 workers, and Castro peered hopefully through field glasses, only an estimated 500,000 showed up. The Cuban Workers Confederation ordered workers to make no demands on May Day; instead they were ordered to carry banners bearing some of the 32 "suggested battle slogans," e.g., "We Salute the Cuban-Soviet Trade Agreement!" and "Down with Yankee Aggression...
...story is true, and Author Sandoz might just as well have told it straight, instead of grafting stiff-legged dialogue into striding narrative. Somehow, her Platte seems more vivid than her pioneers, and poor John Cozad looks a bit shriveled and out of focus, as if viewed from the Bottom of an empty glass of redeye...