Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London audience felt all right-but pain, not pleasure. Said one listener after the concert: "It sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
Both sides were still talking belligerently and boasting of famous victories-by-communiqué. The sober facts were that fighting so far had been on a small scale,* that (except for Arab raids into Galilee) all of it had taken place outside Israel's borders as fixed by U.N., that Syrian and Lebanese troops had been driven from northern Palestine, that the Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant...
That did it. Rivera was condemned by practically everyone in town-except the Communists, who prepared to forgive him his Trotskyite sins and welcome him back with open arms. Roman Catholic committees demanded that the Del Prado mural be changed, or got rid of, as Rivera's Reforma Hotel and Rockefeller Center murals had been...
Herbert A. Bergson, Boston-born, Harvard-bred, left a sure thing in his father's law firm to join the Department of Justice in 1934. Except for two wartime years in the Coast Guard, he has been hardworking his way up ever since. A dark-haired six-footer, Bergson last week was named by the President to head the department's Antitrust Division, succeeding John F. Sonnett...
...Except in Saroyan's world, barroom philosophers who intrude on new customers with the words "What's the dream?" are seldom answered courteously; and when euphoria enchants any saloon for more than five consecutive minutes, you can expect a quick return of trouble, or boredom, or both. The face on Saroyan's barroom floor has something unassailably good about the eyes. But the smile is that of a swindling parson who is sure his own swindle is for the greater glory...