Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists she saw in Washington every other week or so; she said that there were 20 or 30 more men & women in the Government feeding information to her contacts. They were in wartime bureaus and in the Army, the Air Force, the State and Treasury Departments -almost every place except the Navy and the FBI. There was also "a man around the White House," who helped to place her informants in strategic spots...
...point, with the Red Sox in the lower division, the rumor got around that Joe had resigned. Reporters found him in his hotel room, naked except for a towel around his middle, drinking a bottle of beer. McCarthy, who had spent a year and a half in exile after leaving the Yankees, said: "I didn't come back into baseball to quit after two months...
...Cover) Long, long ago, when ancient Greece's local wars were called off so that Greek could meet Greek in the Olympic games, athletes were faddish about food. At one stage, the training-table diet for athletes was fresh cheese at all meals - and nothing else except water. Then things swung the other way: Milo of Crotona, the greatest wrestler of ancient times, ate an entire ox at a single sitting...
Next to track & field, men's swimming gets most attention from the U.S. at the Olympics. With Japan on the sidelines (Japan and Germany were not invited), the U.S. has the pool almost to itself-except for France's Alex Jany in the 100-& 400-meter freestyle. The best U.S. bet: husky Breast-Stroker Joe Verdeur, who has been breaking his own world records...
Petelka's vocabulary starts with personal pronouns: I is 1; you, 2; he, 3; she, 4. Adding X to the word-number makes a plural (man is 330, men is 330X). There are no articles, conjugations of verbs or declensions of nouns (except for the possessive case). Parts of speech are indicated by zeroes (democracy, the noun, is 8730; democratize, the verb, 87300; democratic, the adjective, 873000; democratically, the adverb, 8730000). Says Petelka...