Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plate dinner in his honor: "There are four or five million men and women looking for work, and millions more working only part-time . . . the farmers are told to get off the land and join the ranks of the unemployed . . . bankruptcies have never been higher except during the last Republican depression. When a condition arises which causes you to lose your job you can call it a recession or a deflation or a panic. When you don't have anything to wear, anything to eat in the house, and you have some small mouths crying for a place...
Apparently Menshikov smiled at his closed-door meeting with the President (nobody else was present except Protocol Chief Buchanan). Credentials-presenting ceremonies at the White House are usually routine, lasting five or ten minutes. But Menshikov's visit lasted 32 minutes. When press photographers asked Press Secretary James Hagerty about pictures, he said flatly: "No, we never have pictures of these calls." But a moment later his aide hove into view, calling, "Photographers!" The President himself had decided to break the rule...
Even at this late date, no one seemed eager for a final break. All of the nation's major political parties, except the Communists, offered their services to mediate between rebel Sumatra and the central government. In Djakarta, hundreds of students routed Dr. Mohammed Hatta out of his bed at 3 a.m. to urge that the nation's problems be solved "without bloodshed." Hatta obligingly announced that he would have "no part of any government formed under the pressure of rebel threats," and the Sultan of Djokiakarta took time off from examining model dairy farms at the University...
...commercialism stops at the gate to the grounds surrounding the grotto and basilica. Nothing is sold inside except candles; visitors must dress as they would in church. Under the present Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Pierre-Marie Théas, the grotto has regained much of its 'original rustic simplicity; he replaced the ornate altar with a simple stone slab, took down the iron grille that used to stretch across the front of the cave, removed all but a few of the hundreds of crutches and orthopedic braces left behind by sufferers who found relief at Lourdes...
Smiling and nodding and hand shaking them out the door, then turning to roommates with dread or accusations; and outside in the hall, the committees rating personalities on a grading system from one to seven (except for Ivy, the top, which needs only a plus or minus)--one even reporting the decision, incredibly enough, on a walkie-talkie...