Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more details seeped out, there seemed to be justification for Wherry's defense. After hours of discussion, opinion had crystallized on one point: the State Department could not be trusted to handle either the dollars or the distribution of U.S. aid. Except for half a dozen bitter-enders, most were willing to accept the Marshall Plan in principle-but with some Republican trimmings...
...inclination," he said, "I am opposed to government controls, except in wartime. However, we have no peace today. . . . You cannot save free enterprise if you let the system which protects it go to ruin. . . . The time has come to organize-to mobilize-for peace...
...Hollywood, Actress Martha Vickers (see cut) displayed knee-length stockings to be worn with the New Look. Except for being held up with elastic instead of by a roll, they were much like the "roll-your-own" stockings U.S. women wore back in the roaring, short-skirted...
What is the secret of Feng's progress? Wrote a Chinese newspaper recently: "During the period of 1916 to 1925, he turned his spear backward seven times, at the rate of about once a year." That was a pretty good explanation, except for two points: 1) it dealt with only a small segment of a long and tortuous career, and 2) some might not understand that American for "turned his spear" is "double-crossed...
...British motorists, the Government's ending of the "basic petrol ration" last fall had seemed the last heartbreaking straw in the load of enforced joylessness. Except for business and in hardship cases, they would not get one drop of gas for their cars. Even "basic" had been skimpy. The driver of a 30-miles-to-the-gallon Austin could go only 270 miles a month. With the end of "basic" he had nothing for a drive to the station, an occasional shopping trip, or a weekend spin in the country with the family...