Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...except for a small, close-knit oligarchy, Peru is poor; laborers in Lima get $1 a day. Poverty breeds envy of the rich U.S., and a distrust of capitalism. Noted Nixon after a look at Peru: "South America is not going to support a system of free enterprise if the system appears designed primarily to maintain the status quo and protect the wealth and good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit...
...medical missionary, decided he was headed for a musical career after all, had a studio built for him on the back of the garage, equipped it with a piano. The boy practiced for an hour before going to school, again when he came home and again after dinner-except on the four evenings a week that he went to prayer meetings with his parents. Rachmaninoff was his idol. When Van was twelve, he decided he would win a gold medal in Moscow because Rachmaninoff had been awarded one when he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory...
...many other small nations are as out of place in international skies as pigeons among peregrines. More often than not they cannot operate except by turning themselves into cut-rate, fly-by-night carriers along the lines of the first postwar U.S. nonsked airlines. Usually, they do not pose a competitive threat to well-established lines, but in Latin America they have made flying a cutthroat business (TIME...
...Brandt, I don't believe for one second that any--except without--I will put it this way: with minor exceptions that there is any additional public works to be decided upon, brought into the appropriations picture and finally that will do anything for this present recession...
...year), we have, we think, a right to expect from the Health Service at least the care we would get from a private physician. To us, this includes the right to have a doctor come to our bedside when we are in pain. Radcliffe does not agree. "Except," (and here we quote a physician at Stillman Infirmary) "except in cases of impending death," Health Center physicians do not make house calls. This seems to us barbarous and miserly...