Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Except for a few fringe elements, the people of Little Rock want nothing more than peace and order. Many people point to the peace which existed before the race issue arose and put the blame for the current situation on Negroes and Northern "agitators." A smaller number of people feel that Arkansas authorities failed to pass a very simple test--the integration of nine Negroes into a school of two thousand...
...great majority of citizens who surrounded the barricade blocking off Central High School this morning simply stood and watched. Many had difficulty even watching, for except for reporters and photographers, few were allowed within a block of the school...
...tinted women, estimated at one out of three v. one out of ten in 1952, are not reluctant to admit it-except for the greying, who color their hair to look younger. They consider themselves truly liberated. In the days when Cinemactress Jean Harlow showed women a thing or two about the man-catching qualities of platinum blonde hair, the business of hair-dyeing was a secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same...
...Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...
Priests passing through the lobby of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week found themselves directed to the specially set-up bar (beer and soft drinks) by a sign advising: "Getting wild? You'll be tamed at the Lion's Den." Except for this convention-style japery, the eighth annual meeting of Roman Catholic mission-sending societies was occupied with sober reports, many of them dealing with a single mission area: Africa...