Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business of overseas production for TIME'S foreign editions and getting supplies across the oceans-translating and converting weights and measures, postal rates, etc.-and watching to see that foreign printers do not just use hyphens like that last one (putting them in wherever the line ends) instead of following the rules of English syllabification...
...policy had sought to unite the Nationalists and Communists in a liberal coalition government which might serve as a bridge to Russia instead of a buffer against her. "America's predicament" resulted from the difficulties of uniting two hostile powers. One of them (the Nationalist Government), for reasons deep in its history, was compelled to extend democracy with caution. The other (the Chinese Communists) was anti-democratic in philosophy and action. If any American could have achieved Chinese peace and unity, it was certainly General George Marshall. But the degree of U.S. failure was reflected in last week...
...Mohamed Ali Jinnah, touched off the disaster. But much blame for what actually happened was shifted to Huseyn Shabad Suhrawardy, head of the Bengal provincial government. Chief Minister Suhrawardy, 52, is a slick, Oxford-educated Moslem who has a bad reputation for black-marketeering in his hunger-ridden province. Instead of warning against violence on "Direct Action Day," Suhrawardy proclaimed a holiday in Bengal, which had the effect of putting his followers on the streets; and he threatened Bengal's secession from India if the Moslems were not placated by the British...
...Leningrad was suspended and Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train Soviet youth in a high feeling of patriotism...
...Herman Barren with a nine under par net for 34 holes. But Nelson could not hold the pace. He battled Ed ("Porky") Oliver down to the last green in the quarterfinals, then conceded the decisive 8-inch putt. Newsmen expected to hear him complain of his aching back. Instead he said simply: "My back never bothered me at all. I lost to a man who shot better golf...