Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hints. Said she wistfully: "Every time the Russians talk like that my heart jumps with hope ... I know, I know. But I can't help it if the Russians know the way my heart works." The point was that she knew better than what her heart told her. Except for the willfully blind and the incurably credulous, few of the world's people could any longer believe in what the Russians promised, any more than they could believe in dry water or wooden iron...
...real ordeal-a New York press conference. She never looked better, was natural, frank and gay. The reporters were charmed but blunt: Whom would she date? "I don't know-I'll have to wait until they ask me." "What about your love life?" "Absolutely none, except music-at the moment." Well, what about the President's recent remark that he hoped to hand down his gold-headed walking cane to a grandson? "I think Daddy was a little short of something to say at that point...
Beans & Rice. The refugees had found no welcome in Cuba, where aliens (except for a few technicians) are not allowed to work, and naturalization takes five years. Unable to leave or support themselves, they wrote frantic letters to friends and relatives in the U.S., besieged the U.S. consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants...
Lange's proposal-that the Atlantic pact be thoroughly studied-won the support of virtually all of the Storting except, of course, the Communists. Several non-Red speakers, however, said that not too much time should be lost in the study...
...Hungarian churches (except in the diocese of Archbishop Czapik) priests read Mindszenty's last pastoral letter. It was also his answer to those who, like Czapik, wanted to compromise with the sons of evil. "After taking so many things, the world can still rob us of this or that, but it cannot take our faith in Jesus Christ," said Mindszenty...