Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world for the men of the Nautilus and Skate, first submarines to sail beneath the North Pole, when a sudden unwelcoming noise was heard from Denmark. Socialist Premier H. C. Hansen abruptly announced that Skate would not be allowed to make a scheduled call on Copenhagen. His Cabinet, except for the Defense Minister, had agreed that to have the submarine's nuclear reactor in the harbor was too much of a risk to take...
...18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, and the visits of priests to the villages grew increasingly rare, a group of Catholic laymen called Penitentes gradually emerged. Its members conducted services, taught doctrine, visited the sick and buried the dead-in effect performing all the priestly functions except saying Mass and administering the sacraments...
...acoustic method, suited for any kind of blast except for those set off underground or in outer space. With sensitive microbarometers and hydrophones, observation posts could pick up the low-frequency sound waves that fan out for thousands of miles after every nuclear explosion. Unfortunately, the sound waves are subject to distortion by such natural upheavals as volcanic eruptions, meteorites, landslides and even thunder. ¶ Collection of Radioactive debris that can travel up to 1,200 miles a day at a height of 40,000 ft. Touchy about having air patrols over their territory, the Russian scientists at first balked...
Mullin draws for a New York audience, but he has become a national institution. Besides the World-Telly, where he has appeared six times a week for the past 23 years (except for vacations and one missed deadline when a cartoon was lost), Mullin runs sporadically in the other 20 Scripps-Howard papers, regularly in the weekly Sporting News. His madcap figures have also illustrated dozens of magazine articles (LIFE. Saturday Evening Post), peddled Ramblers for American Motors Corp., and brightened Frank G. Menke's Encyclopedia of Sports...
...students who returned to Moscow after a month in the U.S. showed at a press conference that what they understand best is the cold war. They paid brief respects to the hospitality and friendliness of the Americans, then found fault with almost everything in the country they had visited except its mattresses. Some of their objections...