Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for a promise to his farm audience that support prices would be maintained, Dewey attempted no detailed outline of his program, shrewdly contented himself with general pledges which friends wanted to hear and enemies would find difficult to attack. He promised a foreign policy "made effective by men & women who really understand the nature of the threat to peace and who have the vigor, the knowledge, and the experience required to wage peace successfully." He promised an administration "made up of men & women whose love of their country comes ahead of every other consideration." Cried Dewey: "I pledge...
Registration for the peacetime draft-which many an American had once thought would bring widespread protests -ended last week. Except for some noisy picketing, it had stirred up no fuss at all. But it had helped bolster the Army before even a single man was inducted. It had upped recruiting to the highest point since the wartime draft ended...
...Channel and reformed across the ocean, only to come to grief again at the hands of George Washington's men. The question facing Britons now, says the Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens, Alexandria and Byzantium to its credit, has done it a third time. The English have to do it a third time or perish...
...Napoleon, artistically the Göring of his day, sacked Italy to fill the Louvre. "We will have everything that is beautiful in Italy," he decided, "except a small number of objects at Turin and at Naples." He even forced Pope Pius VI to sign a treaty whereby the Louvre acquired (if only for a few short years) a hundred of the Vatican's greatest jewels...
Back to Harvard. Nothing else will happen during your first term, except that one-hundred percent of you will go to the Yale game, ninety-one percent will go to most of the other games, ninety-one percent will go to cocktail parties every Saturday, ninety-one percent will get stewed every Saturday, ninety-one percent will get stewed six other days each week, and one percent will get straight A's. That leaves eight percent in the middle--they don't get straight A's and they also don't go to football games and parties. They will...