Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Paris session, the Dutch had made every effort to make the world forget the war and concentrate on Indonesia's future. Twelve days after the Security Council ordered him to, the Dutch commander in Indonesia, Lieut. General S. H. Spoor, had told his troops to cease fire (except for "action against roaming groups and gangs or individuals who try to cause disturbances"). Pale, tired Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees flew to Batavia, to get Republicans to cooperate in a Dutch-sponsored Indonesian interim government. Queen Juliana promised Indonesia "order, prosperity, freedom, independence and sovereignty in a federal state...
...high-riding Reds seemed to have no thought of making peace except on their own terms. A three-day radio barrage hammered out an anti-Chiang theme built around oft-repeated symbols of "reactionaries," "war criminals," and "running dogs of American imperialism." The big guns of Communist artillery then poured shells into Tientsin, North China's leading industrial and commercial city, where a quarter of a million men had been conscripted to build defense works...
...authorities one of their trickiest methods of posing as a source of scientific light and hope. Western genetics, following Mendel and Morgan, teaches that the inherited characteristics of living organisms are largely controlled by genes passed down from parents to offspring. During sexual reproduction the genes are shuffled, but except in the case of accidental mutations they are not changed. Lysenko teaches that the form of an organism is determined by the environment in which it develops. He claims to have modified plant species merely by moving them around Russia. (Western geneticists have tried & tried, with no success, to repeat...
Weir is not necessarily on the way out, but the homeopaths' prestige in Britain is. Except for the foothold at the palace, homeopathy is pretty much out of fashion. Other doctors no longer bother to keep up the tradition against fraternizing -chiefly because they feel that homeopaths no longer threaten their medical power...
Like it or not-and some gallerygoers decidedly did not-the painting had authority and punch. In the fast-stepping world of modern art (which turns out an even higher percentage of grade B quickies than Hollywood) it was a supercolossal production. As with all such productions, except those of genius, it inclined to be heavyhanded...