Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish armed forces, of trying "to use the Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military machine and to subject the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist activities of the U.S. in northern Europe." Izvestia warned Norway that "the Marshall Plan holds nothing good for Norway except that it endangers her independence and is fraught with her complete subjugation to foreign imperialists...
...would not have dreamed of a few months ago-Swedish military cooperation with the Western powers. In Madison, Wis., Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne spoke bluntly: "Peace can always be had-by individuals and nations-by giving in on every point until one is stripped of everything except peace-the peace of the grave. . . . We shall of course stand up against any future aggressor, from wherever he might come. We shall fight with everything we have. . . . Once more we shall prefer to die on our feet rather than live on our knees...
...kept himself alive as a dishwasher, engine cleaner, grape picker, ranch hand and art photographer-and studied painting at night. "I have done nearly everything except commercial art," he recalls, "but it is not true when they say I worked as a butler...
Beethoven & Refreshments. The Concertgebouw has not always enjoyed stability. It was born privately, like most small-town U.S. orchestras-except that Amsterdam's music-loving burghers built a hall to hear visitors like Brahms and Liszt before they built an orchestra...
Muses Irene: "L.B. thought that a woman's place was in the home. I almost never got out except with the family." When she was 19, she got out long enough to meet a bright young studio executive named Dave Selznick at a New Year's party. Three years later they were married...