Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...betrayed his alma mater. Today is my birthday, and it is 15 below zero. I am whimpering by my fireplace . . . expecting any moment to hear the roar of the crowd as they march up my street to lynch me. ... I couldn't find anything inaccurate in the story, except it gave the impression Wisconsin was the rougher of the teams, which it wasn't, and didn't say that Iowa had 32 fouls and Wisconsin only 15. . . . Please don't give me another athletic assignment for some time to come...
Communist reaction flared at first. Partisan General Luigi Longo sneered: What about the Boy Scouts and the uniformed Catholic girls of the Children of Mary organization? But next day the partisans executed a disciplined about-face. They promised compliance. Except when the police (i.e., Scelba) permitted, the uniforms would stay in the trunk...
Such pictures made Koerner the find of the year. There were less successful paintings in his show, some nasty in color, some confused in content. Except for one oil, The Beach, Koerner had excluded nature almost entirely. "I'm a city man," says Koerner. "I really love to ride the subway. To me it's like going to the theater...
Labelling himself "a student of propaganda," he lamented the fact that most "ordinary citizens" have little idea of the proposed legislation's content except that "Barnes wants to drive Communists out of Massachusetts...
Back in 1935, Athletic Director Bill Bingham used up six weeks finding Eddie Casey's successor, Dick Harlow. Five weeks have elapsed since Harlow resigned. Which means precisely nothing, except that five subtracted from six leaves...