Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying: "My husband [father, son, brother, nephew, friend, etc.] is a good man but a habitual alcoholic. Please send the drug mentioned in TIME. I enclose a check for . . ." or "send antabus whatever it costs." In undertaking to answer each communication, Dr. Jacobsen has told all of the senders-except physicians and commercial firms-to have their doctors write to him. His position is that antabus medication is a "chemical incarceration" intended to "help alcohol addicts around a dangerous corner," and that in so doing a doctor's advice is needed...
...rose as one man and yelled when Harry Truman appeared. Later, they took their positions in two long lines on either side of his car-sedate-looking fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although afterwards they began to stiffen up a bit, sitting around in the chill breeze...
Chairman Herriot, grunting like a frustrated bear, scratched his massive head and remarked that there did not seem anything to do except refer the controversy back to the Western Foreign Ministers, who will meet in London this week. Herriot's callers were escorted to the door by five ushers in evening dress. As the delegates got into their cars, Paul Reynaud told a British journalist that on this issue Britain appeared en mauvaise posture. "Yes," the Briton translated freely, "we are on a bad wicket...
Although Li was a respected, energetic man, he was left a sorry legacy and had no policy except to sue for peace with the Reds. The Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung had won the war; he could dictate the terms of peace. What Mao wanted was power to put China in the Communist bloc. That he already had. He could proceed along the path of compromise and coalition certain that, with Chiang's passing, the back of anti-Communist resistance in China had been broken...
White-haired Colonel Samuel D. Avery, the Canal Zone's chief health officer, had watched jungle yellow fever (the same old yellow jack except that monkeys and rodents as well as mosquitoes carry it) move toward Panama from the Brazilian Amazon. He knew that it had been spotted in the jungles east of the Canal. Now he ordered 75,000 doses of yellow-fever vaccine by B-29 from a Hamilton, Mont, laboratory. Spraying and draining and elimination of Aëdes breeding grounds were stepped up to the old Gorgas pace...