Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, the idea of double-damning Japan by limiting exports to the U.S. and preventing trade with "any of the great area" (i.e., Red China) close by across the China Sea seemed foolish. "You just block them, and they have no place to go except in the arms of somebody where we don't want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts...
...France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning British queen since Victoria was such a success (except for a royal umbrella lost at Orly Airport) that even the Communist newspapers who had scoffed at first were reduced to sweeping deep editorial curtsies...
...want to hurt yourself. But the love you have for yourself is nothing compared to the love I have for you." Moulay Hassan studied law. Now the heir apparent, intelligent and self-confident, Moulay Hassan collects fast cars, says, "I've never felt inferior to anyone except my father...
...Hassan commander of the Royal Moroccan Army (trained and equipped by the French), and sent him out to disband the Liberation Army by swearing its men into the Sultan's own force. Steely-nerved Moulay Hassan had soon sworn in some 5,000 irregulars, sent the rest home except for some holdouts mostly in the deep south. The Sultan himself toured all Morocco, traveling in a huge caravan and camping in tents on the plains. Talking to crowds of 100,000 at a time, Mohammed V drummed home his message that independence was not an end in itself, that...
With that admission, the pure flame of public anger yellowed and flickered, except for a backfire of resentment against Pearson for having misled public opinion. What had threatened to create a real diplomatic strain between Canada and the U.S. turned instead into an occasion for second thoughts and cooler analysis...