Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just rewards were one's due. Few Britons voted for the controlled life when they voted Socialist last year. They voted for a bearable life, and for the prospect of a good life. They have not got either and will not get anything better for a long time. Instead, they are adjusting themselves to a grey world of poverty-and to genteel inferiority in comparison with the powerful, prosperous...
...prophecy had been of riots, bloodshed, even civil war. Instead, like a damp firecracker, there had been nothing. Under the hot sun of the southern summer, Argentines, some 3,000,000 of them, had gone to the polls in orderly fashion; 250,000 soldiers, sailors and police stood guard to guarantee the Army's pledge of a free and honest Presidential election...
Knockdown had been assigned the job of making pace, and got out in front quick. His $26,000 stablemate, Star Pilot, moved up to threaten in the stretch, but instead of being awed by the competition, Knockdown went on to win by two lengths. The prize: 37 times Knockdown's purchase price. He thus became a good bet for the Big Three coming up (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont), whose purses have been boosted to $100,000 this year...
...Americans who taught us the value of headlines and the use of expressions like God-hungry [and] slumberwear [but] when the Americans say, 'Get to hell out of here, right away!' they are using eight words instead of the three needed for 'Go away...
Cash on the Barrelhead. As yet, most farm experts viewed the boom with only mild alarm. Most of the farm-buying was for cash (in World War I, farmers sometimes had three and four mortgages on their land), and instead of sinking all their World War II profits in new land, farmers were using it to pay off mortgages on the old. Now, almost half of U.S. farmers own their land outright and mortgages on the rest are down to $5.5 billion, half the peak...