Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not cigarette smoking is detrimental to health, the very fact that there" is a doubt about it should be convincing enough that the habit does no one any good -except the manufacturer and seller of cigarettes. I dare say that every cigarette smoker would gladly give up the habit if he thought that he would not miss smoking and be unhappy about it. The fact is. as in my own case, a sense of pride comes with the fact that I possessed guts and gumption enough to give up the habit...
...follows day." But Thorneycroft is loth to do more than exhort his countrymen to work harder and resist gains that cancel themselves out. Committed both to freedom from controls and to an expanding economy ("Wages are going up and ought to go up"), Thorneycroft has no answer to inflation except the conviction that growth in time will restore balance in Britain. The failure to have any better answer is perhaps the chief explanation of the Tory Macmillan government's present unpopularity in the country...
...usually disrupts whole territories, debauches the virgin countryside and turns the hearts of good men black with greed. Last week a primitive corner of West Africa's French Cameroons was enjoying a gold strike that seemed to be bringing nothing but happiness to everyone involved-everyone, that is, except the man who found the gold...
...moderation-wine (in small doses as a sedative), singing and dancing, even tennis (preferably mixed doubles with husband as partner). And, to the relief of women who have spent as much as four or five months on their backs only to lose their babies anyway, he firmly opposes (except in the rarest of cases) one of the most onerous of all prescriptions: bed rest...
...Trailsend. Publisher Cox allowed his papers to keep their own personalities, gave free rein to his local publishers-who sometimes showed more concern for the cash register than the crusading journalism for which James Cox stood. (All Cox dailies are Democratic except the pro-Ike Dayton Journal-Herald and Springfield Sun.) Overall management of the seven-paper group and a string of allied TV and radio stations fell increasingly to James Cox Jr., the twice-married publisher's son. But the governor still showed up at his Dayton office, held frequent long-distance powwows with Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph...