Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to rob the council of all real power by putting it under the veto-bound four-power Kommandatura. By week's end, Vishinsky had conceded a slight limitation of the four powers' veto in the Kommandatura, but the West wanted to abolish the veto entirely, except for security matters, and leave the Berliners' own government wide powers to run its affairs...
Stuffy's lineup will be complete except for shortstop Mort Dunn and catcher Cliff Crosby who instead will amuse themselves with exam-time occupations...
Freshman Soccer--Men competing in one-third of the scheduled freshman games win minor numerals, except in the case of an undefeated season, when major numerals in minor colors are given...
...letters, their camp-followers, and their spiritual confreres, all of whom are afflicted with the need either to treat things seriously or to ignore them altogether. Since Mencken clearly cannot be taken seriously in this day and age, the alternative is chosen, with the result that his books, except for the tomes on the American language, the "Treatise On The Gods," and one or two others, have passed our of print. This situation disappears tomorrow with the publication of "A Mencken Chrestomathy." "Chrestomathy," Mencken reveals in his preface, means "a collection of choice passages from an author from Mencken...
...classics, except for Richard HI, stayed primly on the shelf. The experiments never got off the side streets. Box office was inclined to be moody. Hollywood had not been so tightfisted about Broadway in years: its most sizable purchase was Home of the Brave...