Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SEVEN UP, 16, is an orphan from South Carolina, lives, at the moment, with an elderly aunt who is on relief. Essentially illiterate, he is looked after by no one, says Salisbury, "and no one except his fellow gang members cares...
...Dictator Accepts. Every right hand in the hall except Khrushchev's shot up in favor of the motion. Khrushchev sat with bowed head. Cheers volleyed off the walls. Mikoyan and the others wrung the boss's hand. Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum to say with apparent emotion; "I shall do everything to justify your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve...
...space of a few minutes. Nikita Khrushchev had brushed aside the myth of collective leadership and gathered to himself formal command over both the Soviet government and the Communist Party. No man except Stalin had held both jobs simultaneously before (Malenkov held both for a few transitional days in 1953 ), and even Stalin, who could have taken the premiership any time he chose, found it wise to wait 19 years for what...
...Western domination, which has wrecked most other Western attempts at private enterprise. Propagandists rail so effectively against U.S. aid that it is becoming almost a sin to accept it. U.S. Government economic-aid programs are frequently considered politically ineffective, and private Western capital is steadily leaving the Middle East, except for oil companies, whose returns are great enough to justify putting up with the problems. Even Middle Easterners with money to invest generally salt it away abroad, or put it in quick-profit, nonproductive ventures. Only the Russians, who love a vacuum, have been willing to step in with easy...
...that they never saw a man who looked so listlessly at the sky. Leopold shows the clear lapse of reason by which, like most lifers, he became a collector of injustices in a place where uncommon cruelty was a common failing. In short, Leopold can tell everything about prison except why he was there...