Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failure was not so much in policy as in performance. Except for a few notable exceptions, U.S. leadership in world affairs had been unimaginative and uncertain. Time & again the U.S. had failed to grasp its opportunities. When Britain's Ernest Bevin suggested a union of Britain and Western Europe, the U.S. had cheered loudly, then sidestepped. The union idea died on the vine. In the U.N., around the anterooms and lounges, the most frequently heard complaint from delegates who looked to the U.S. for leadership was: "We would like to follow you but we don't know where...
When it was all over (except for some tears and a little killing), the victors celebrated. Last Saturday was proclaimed "Police Day" in Prague, to honor the men who had made the victory possible. Spread in massive ranks across the old town square stood thousands of policemen and militiamen, agents of the force which hoped to celebrate Police Day the world over. Before them, amid Prague's grey and ancient statuary, sat Communist Premier Klement Gottwald, surrounded by his new cabinet, a smug, squat figure of triumph...
Even without any changes, clubs could move into the offices today and find their needs almost completely satisfied. Except in the Psyche-acoustic section, there is little machinery or technical equipment that would have to be moved. The existing photographic darkrooms, wood and metal shops could be turned over to student groups...
...Crimson, players registered triumphs except Captain Adam Foster, who dropped a close 3-2 set to MIT's Stu Braun. Of the other eight matches five were shutouts...
Secret Adviser. Such was the background and preparation of the man who, in a crisis, was called upon to save France. He nearly did it. Author Vallentin makes it very plain that in the last moments before the Terror there was nobody in the Assembly except Mirabeau who had the confidence of the people. He became a secret adviser of the king. It was then too late; Mirabeau's strength was gone, and his advice was not followed, or was accepted only in part. The queen, with "her superficial and malicious intelligence, which excelled in seizing on slight slips...