Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mouvement Républicain Populaire (the French branch of Europe's Christian democrats). At midnight, with his cabinet posts already assigned and the Radical and Socialist parties satisfied, Bidault went before the Assembly and won a cushiony vote of confidence, 367 to 183. Every non-Communist deputy except one voted for Bidault; yet there were many who, with deep misgivings about the prospects of his regime, voted for him because they could not stand the floundering any longer...
Push-Ups for Warmth. Consul Paul Paddock and Vice Consul Culver Gleysteen arrived in Dairen in June 1948. From that time on, they were sealed off from all except occasional radio contact with the outside world. In 14 months, they received mail twice. During the last four months of their stay, the Russians made daily attempts to jam their radio contacts with the U.S. State Department...
...Kyaw Nyein, leader of the Socialists who are Burma's biggest political party, said: "We are so disrupted that 300 armed men can take any place except Rangoon itself. In the last two years there is scarcely a town in Burma which has not been seized at least once by rebels of some sort...
Yesterday's freshman-Andover soccer game was almost the parallel of the varsity's 1 to 0 victory over Princeton except for one thing--nobody scored...
...Tigers earned the impractical distinction of outplaying the varsity most of the way. Usually a run-and-kick squad, Princeton featured a good passing game in every period except the third, when the Crimson held control. At all other times, however, Princeton was taking most of the shots, several of them just missing the goal...