Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.C.A.A. passed a code which the University of Kentucky adopted, stating that a member of the N.C.A.A. was not permitted to offer any prospective athlete anything except tuition when awarded on athletic ability. The University of Kentucky has conformed to this code, and I am afraid your article gives the impression that we now offer prospective athletes this same scholarship that our boys on the varsity are receiving...
...Foreign Minister Joseph Bech-were heading west on the Queen Mary to sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations of the "Conference for World Peace...
...What am I supposed to have done?' I demanded. The commissar quelled me with a glance. 'I'm asking the questions,' he said . . . thy name, birthplace . . . How many times in the U.S.S.R.? Over what frontiers? . . . Why should any American go back & forth to the U.S.S.R. except for subversive reasons? He had no concept of the life of a journalist...
Green Pastures. Vargas led the way slowly into the house, sat down near the door. There was not a picture on the wall, nor a rug on the floor. Over the unpainted table, bare except for letters and newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In the adjoining room stood a metal bed, a lavender-colored wardrobe, a few nondescript wooden chairs. "My parents were farmers," Vargas began. "Now that I am an old man, it is good to be back in my childhood scenes...
...Haigh story was discreetly moved to an inside page in all dailies except the Mirror...