Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week's notice that the Bowladrome's lease will not be renewed left Annex keglers with no place to bowl except Cambridge Common and ended five years of bowling as an accredited gymnasium sport at the 'Cliffe...
...world's most eminent Socialist author was enchanted. "My plays are now classics open to all managements," he sniffed, "like Shakespeare's except for the royalties. First come, first served...
...press abhors the very idea of censorship, except where the nation's security is plainly involved. So does Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who has plugged for sensible security rules ever since he pried open the Navy's clam-tight policy in 1944. Military censorship ended with the war,* but the need for keeping military secrets did not. Last week Forrestal called in 22 press, radio and newsreel representatives to talk over ways to keep them...
...Except on restricted atomic information, whose disclosure "with the intent to injure the U.S." may be punished with anything from a $10,000 fine and ten years in prison, to death...
Such shenanigans dramatize Graves's disgust with civilization as he finds ' it. That disgust kept him in high school until he was 21 because "except for drawing, the subjects were a nuisance," and since then he has almost always managed to avoid steady work. His new temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle...