Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Natural disaster relief (except in instances of major disaster), which cost the U.S. $16 million last year...
...vision from an old George Raft movie-plaid summer suit, white shirt, dark, grey-flecked hair. He gave himself a final reassuring pat of his breast handkerchief when one woman cooed, "He's beautiful." Predictably, Dio had nothing to say in reply to 140 questions from the committee-except 140 Fifth Amendment refusals, read in a low voice from a typed statement...
...this point, and after all banks had closed for the weekend, Gaillard was ready for his big step. It was devaluation, but with a difference. The franc was devalued to 420 to the dollar in all tourist transactions. Imports in effect would cost 20% more, except on those imports deemed vital to the continuing expansion of French industry. On these "exceptions," such as fuel and key raw materials (wool, cotton and steel products), accounting for about 60% of French imports, the rate would remain 350 to the dollar. The calculated effect: a cut in import spending. Next, to give France...
...With Britain reporting more than 2,000 cases of poliomyelitis this year (three times the U.S. rate, in proportion to population), the government still banned importation of American-made Salk vaccine except as a gift from U.S. donors, relied on British vaccine, which is in short supply. Commented the Lancet: "If the American vaccine is safe enough for gifts of it to be allowed to enter the country, it is safe enough for people here to be allowed to buy it ... The present compromise [is] irrational...
When Juan Ramón Jiménez won the 1956 Nobel Prize for literature (TIME, Nov. 5, 1956), most Americans hearing the news wondered who on earth he was. The greatest living poet of the Spanish-speaking world had hardly been translated into English, and. except for students of Spanish literature, even the literarily enlightened only vaguely knew his name from anthologies. In Spain Poet Jiménez had kept aloof from political life, in 1936 had exiled himself to America, eventually settling in Puerto Rico. Now one of his most memorable works is available to U.S. readers, largely...