Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make it possible for you to receive our magazine at a real saving during your first year home-while you are getting set in your postwar jobs and "becoming used to the ways of civilian life all over again - we have made a special Transition Rate of $3.50 instead of $5 for a full year of TIME. This special rate is open only to returning servicemen and women until...
Local Negroes rallied, too, instead of fleeing homeward in the usual pattern of fright. In Mink Slide, a rickety Negro business district, they gathered...
Irked by such talk, the Administration has changed the policy on surpluses abroad. Under a directive from President Truman, the Army and Navy will bring home surplus goods in the Pacific, instead of letting them sit while the Foreign Liquidation Commission (which handles surpluses), hunts buyers, usually with no success...
...famed atom-expert Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Each has enough "technical advisers" to set up a Hollywood branch of the Nuclear Physicists' Club, although there is little new which the scientists can disclose. Tension has mounted: customers at Mike Romanoff's posh eatery now talk in whispers instead of in the regulation Hollywood yell. Dark diplomacy is hinted...
...steamed down to protest. "The dignity and force of his entrance were somewhat impaired by the fact that as he came abreast of the back porch he found himself face to face with Mrs. Kettle, who was comfortably seated in the doorless outhouse reading the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, and instead of hurriedly retiring in confusion, she remained where she was but took active part in the ensuing conversation...