Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Vishinsky declared that Russia would agree to international control-if the control agency were subject to a Russian veto; that would mean no international inspection except as Russia specifically granted permission...
...afternoon last week, a Russian lieutenant, a rifle slung over his shoulder. drove a motorcycle up the street. He was young, short and fairly handsome except for two scars, one on each side of his face, which looked as if they had been made by a single bullet. Dozens of eyes peering through curtained windows saw the Russian walk unsteadily up the steps and enter Frau Lehrte's house. Soon he walked down the steps and into a nearby orchard, where he leaned wearily against an apple tree: the widow Lehrte was not home, and the Russian intended...
Even War Minister George Stratos, who gets publicly furious at any report except "Victory on all fronts," was privately doubtful. Said he with a sigh: "I guess it will be somewhere else after Vitsi-maybe the Grammes again...
...Except for two years in the Italian army ("I don't like the killing business. Me, I am afraid"), Tajo has been singing ever since-in Turin, Rome, London, Milan, and in 1946, briefly in Chicago. Now, at 33, he hopes to stay in the U.S., has. already signed with the Met. He is happy that he makes people laugh, but he wants to do more serious roles than Don Basilio or Leporello. Says he: "I do the comic role because I have the nerve. But I like Boris Godunov better...
...Seattle Times, which turns sideswipe into sidewipe, nothing is ever unique. The Times also dislikes the mere mention of blood "except in the cases of transfusions and hounds." And in the Scripps-Howard papers, among others, robbers are never bandits. Roy Howard says that bandits are found only in Mexico, and that they all died out with Pancho Villa anyway...