Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House refused (207 to 161) to allow sailors to eat oleo with their meals as soldiers and airmen already do, except in some overseas areas or when butter surpluses are depleted. Dairy-bloc Congressmen lead a successful fight to keep intact a Navy Ration Act put through by Theodore Roosevelt to provide bluejackets with 1 6/10 ounces of "butter" a day, to prevent scurvy and beriberi...
...Marbury v. Madison 15 years later, Chief Justice John Marshall, like Coke unarmed except for the force of law, determined the right of judicial review over legislative decision, gave breath and blood to the American precedent as "a Government of laws and not of men." So it was also that at the testing time of the Republic. Abraham Lincoln was a man who knew two basic books: the Bible and Blackstone's commentaries...
...most consistent critics. To an off-record evening at his home in suburban Wesley Heights, Nixon invited a dozen British Washington correspondents who have given the readers at home a general picture of Nixon as a cross between a slick operator and an unprincipled opportunist. Nixon ducked no questions except those that implied criticism of the President. He apologized for nothing, admitted that he had called Democrats many a hard name, but never has called them a party of Communists, as Harry Truman likes to say. Admitted Nixon: "Politics the way I play it is a rough business." Said...
Last week, after waiting for heads to cool, King Mohammed announced that Si Bekkai's replacement would be Foreign Minister Ahmed Balafrej, 49, a suave and moderate Cairo-and Sorbonne-educated lawyer. He belongs to the Istiqlal, and so does every member of the new government except for one Jew, who represents the Jewish community. Full of their new power, the Istiqlal seemed bent on proving the accusations against them. "Those who conspire against the unity and security of the nation," rumbled the Istiqlal daily Al Alam, "as well as those who cooperated in the past with foreign hands...
...three Italians. He had spent long years in Moscow, was a big wheel in Stalin's Comintern, won such confidence from the Kremlin that he was allowed to pursue his own "Italian line" of Communism. And he knew them all personally-Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin, Zhukov. All except...