Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because they are making trouble, and the Japanese because they fought us, and the Spanish who did, and the Germans who did, and the French who obviously cannot spell. And the English because they are English, which is enough reason. In fact, I think we should segregate all nationalities except the Irish...
...Force 25,000, the Navy 15,000, and the Marines 10,000, bringing total military manpower down to 2,600,000. The Air Force will come down five wings to 123; the Army will probably drop another division to 15 (but will withdraw troops from no overseas area except Japan); the Navy will mothball 35 operating ships. Further cuts may turn out to be necessary, Wilson hinted, when his successor, Procter & Gamble's President Neil Hosier McElroy, gets to working out the defense budget for fiscal...
Bunt & Brag. Held down by such deadly pitching, softball games (except when some industrial giant takes on a church-league team) are low-scoring affairs. The bunt is a favorite offensive weapon. Fast-handed fielders are always ready to charge the plate; the first and third basemen often find themselves playing just a few yards from the batter. Then the second baseman covers first, the shortstop covers third and the centerfielder takes over at second. The hit-and-run is rare, since base runners are permitted no lead...
After a week of banquets, speeches and plaque dedications, a Presbyterian minister led his congregation in a special service commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of their church. The week-long observance might not have been remarkable except for the rank of some of those who took part, e.g., U.S. Ambassador to France Amory Houghton, and for the church's location: 65 Quai d'Orsay, Paris. Cabled the President of the U.S.: CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES AS YOU ENTER YOUR SECOND CENTURY OF SERVICE...
...behalf of the Foreign Christian Union of New York, and with $46,000 raised in the U.S. and France, built a church on the Rue de Berri, off the Champs Elysees. "The services are to be Christian, simply and purely Christian," he wrote at the church's founding. "Except by a violation of compact, the chapel we are erecting can never become exclusively devoted to the forms of any one sect...