Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more technological weapons. If the British reason for reduction in force is economic, he pleaded, they owe it to their partners to say so. This the British did. This explanation, Norstad hoped, would not give other NATO nations an excuse to follow suit, since all of them except the U.S. spend less on defense than Britain...
...Poland's confused state, nothing is sure except that the old-style Communism does not work. Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka's economic planners no longer ask "Is it orthodox Marxism?" but "Will it work?" To get the sagging Polish economy working, they are encouraging many forms of small-scale capitalism, decentralizing state-owned industry, and letting independent peasant cooperatives take over the thousands of abandoned collective farms...
...took a life, and the only way I can atone for that, even in a small measure, is through something like cancer research." Another: "I am just starting on a life sentence, and it doesn't look like I'll ever be able to help anybody outside except by volunteering for something like this...
...Fair Lady (from Shaw's Pygmalion), a holdover from last season that is still blooming after some 400 performances, pouring back profits to CBS, its sole angel ($401,000), which got exclusive television rights. Except for stray seats, My Fair Lady is dated up until September. Other hits from past seasons that are still flourishing are Frank Loesser's operatic The Most Happy Fella, and Damn Yankees, a rollicking tale of sex, baseball and the devil...
...tone which is apparently meant to be highly serious. The writing in the last act is made up of the worst sort of pseudo-poetic prose, studded with such obesrvations as, "Life is a prostitute and death is a whore." The images employed are weak with age, except for a few borrowed from T.S. Eliot. Mr. Wulp, in short, quite effectively succeeds in turning his comedy to junk...