Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pull it out at any time-as he had, in effect, after running second to Tom Dewey in Wisconsin's 1944 primary. Even more important was the fact that General MacArthur has not been in the U.S. for almost eleven years. To many Americans he is almost unknown except as a legendary military man who had been one of the great captains of World War II, who had ruled the conquered Japanese, most of his countrymen assumed, with justice and magnanimity. If this remoteness was a political handicap, it was also a potential asset which could be realized...
Leonora Carrington struggled back over that precipice and still struggles to paint the visions that haunted her private void. Except for those visions, her present life is a model of domesticity. She lives with her two children and second husband (a news photographer) in an out-of-the-way house in Mexico City, strolling out once a day for the mail, and painting at night...
...Dozen Don Quixotes. Except for a brief respite after the revolution of 1848, Daumier waged a running battle with the censors. When they bore down too hard, he turned from political to social satire, illustrated his favorite novel Don Quixote a dozen times, and ultimately got around to the easel-paintings-the blacksmiths and laundresses, as dignified as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible-on which his reputation as a 19th Century master largely rests...
...Symptoms. Dr. Halliday, onetime general practitioner and now a member of Scotland's Department of Health, finds many signs that society is coming apart at the mental seams. Except for a wartime spurt, the birthrate is declining, owing not to poor health but to the neurotic anxieties of parents. While the birthrate goes down, psychosomatic complaints such as peptic (stomach) ulcers...
...difficult, if not impossible, for Avon to develop [honor and culture] in a boy, if he has not been trained in early years." She expected the well-born youngsters to wear black ties and dark jackets by night, Brooks Brothers grey flannels by day, play no interscholastic sport except polo, learn fly-casting and the manly art of self-defense...