Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quote Cozzens as saying, "I have no thesis except that people get a very raw deal from life." What is this idea but the very cornerstone of sentimentalism...
...cranny of public or private life is safe from the curiosity of the U.S. press-except the U.S. press. Publishers treat other publishers as fellow club members whose foibles-and achievements-may be whispered about in a corner of the library but are not to be bruited about in public print. From its window seat in the clubhouse, TIME sees newspapers and newsmen, as well as other magazines, as legitimate, significant and often fascinating subjects for discussion and criticism. Because no other general U.S. publication talks so regularly and so candidly about the press in action, TIME's Press...
...servants really try to help the hapless citizen who must do business-and battle-with the state. The rest either do little or do nothing, throughout their easy workday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. By law, nothing can tear even the indolent and the inefficient from the payrolls except criminal conviction for repeated flagrant insubordination, which must be proved in a formal trial. Ministries are loaded with "temporary workers" who stay until death. Forbidden to hire new stenographers, the Ministry of Justice put them on the rolls as "prison guards, female, temporary...
...charged, after the suicide of Diplomat Herbert Norman (TIME, April 15 et seq.), with covering up Norman's Communist connections-a factor in the Liberals' electoral defeat. Mike Pearson is a proven vote getter in his own riding, is better known than any other Liberal except St. Laurent. He should easily capture the leadership at the Liberal convention at year...
...Ronde, In Titusville, Pa., the personal notice "I will not be responsible for any bills except those contracted by myself. Robert J. Sadowski" in the daily Herald was followed by another reading: "If Robert Sadowski pays his own bills, he will have all he can do without paying mine. Doris Sadowski...