Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academy. The violent personal attacks on scientists for unorthodox ideas have disappeared from the academy's monthly magazine, Vestnik. The cry of "cosmopolitanism" is no longer heard, and President Nesmeyanov himself has declared that "internationalism is a specific of science." On this all scientists would agree. Except for what is military and secret, a scientific advance for one nation is an advance for all. As for the party's former insistence on practical results, Nesmeyanov simply turned the tables on the West. It is capitalism, not socialism, said he, "that places science within the framework of practicalism...
...Performing Arts Program for the U.S. exhibit and Director of Manhattan's City Center, assured TV Torquemada Mike Wallace that the world is very much with the U.S.: "Oh, it's not true, all this talk of anti-Americanism. I've never found it in Europe except among a certain set of intellectuals-the ones the newspapermen are always with. They're all liberal and leftist. There were 750,000 people at the fair on May Day-and all 750,000 were trying to get into the American pavilion...
...debate was its recognition that profound, even violent, disagreement was a natural part of the human and social process. It was habitual to speak of a debate as a fierce debate or a hot debate, and these adjectives were used, not disparagingly, but in admiration. Adversaries are no more, except-if you will-on programs like those of Mike Wallace or John Wingate, where there is but a shallow pretense of intellectual substance. The panel has moderated them out of existence...
Open to any qualified student in the University, this year's Darcy race was unusual in that all entrants were from the College. Except for Boldt, a sophomore, all were seniors...
From the heavens around, above and below -blue-black except for the myriad brilliant pinpoints of nontwinkling stars, the glow of the mist-shrouded earth and the hard white disk of the sun -invisible, cosmic radiation particles pierce the space capsule -and riddle the pilot -harmfully or harmlessly, who knows? By then the space traveler is weightless -an unearthly state in which he may do himself injury with normal movements of his own muscles. He cannot smoke because of fire and explosion hazards; the cabin pressure is so low that he cannot even whistle to keep up his courage...