Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Shovels. Siam's people had reason to be cheerful. Since the middle of the 18th Century their country has been free from foreign rule (except for the Japanese occupation during World War II). The Siamese feel no smoldering resentment against any former colonial masters, are also happy because their country is comparatively rich and not overcrowded. Yet all of its cheerfulness cannot shield Siam from the crosswinds of Communist insurrection which blow across the border from Burma, Indo-China and Malaya...
...victory had its grim side. Except for a few old men & women, there were no inhabitants left in the region: the Reds had taken all able-bodied men & women with them. In Krystallopigi, 88-year-old Vassilis Claras explained: "The day before the government army came, the Communists gave us orders to cross into Albania, because the Monarcho-Fascists would kill us. I told them I was an old man and didn't care whether I lived or died-so I stayed...
...final, Furuhashi broke Hashizume's brand-new record by more than ten seconds, set a new mark for the 400-meter, and swam on the Japanese team that lowered the world-record time for the 800-meter relay. The Nipponese swept all the championship free-style swimming events except the 100-meter (won by Bob Gibe of the Detroit...
Corn & Television. What hybrid corn did for the corn farmers, Schnering hopes to do for the dairymen, some of whom already think the plan "may be the biggest advance in the livestock industry in more than 100 years." Says Schnering: "Except for television, artificial breeding is the fastest growing business...
...like that book it is written with affection for the subject. But it has an art of its own that makes it rich and strange. The writer's humor can be bland and surreptitious, or broad and biting. Of Divver's punditry: "His views were not original, except in the field of military strategy and logistics...