Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Flow." In view of lagging oil shipments (see BUSINESS), asked a correspondent, what was Ike going to do about a refusal by the Texas control board to step up production? Said the President: "I think the Federal Government should not disturb the economy of our country except when it has to. On the other hand . . . the business concerns of our country . . . should consider where do our long-term interests lie. And certainly they demand a Europe that is not flat on its back economically . . . Oil must flow in such a quantity as to fill up every tanker we have...
...time Lodge had finished, most U.N. politicos were ready to concede that the great Algerian debate was all over except for the shouting. This promised to be considerable since at week's end 24 nations were still waiting their turn to speak. But with both the U.S. and Britain supporting France, there was little chance that any resolution unacceptable to the French could win the necessary two-thirds majority in the Assembly...
...Except during the Depression years, actual migration from Britain has always been high (an average 150,000 a year), but the vast majority of those who now say they want to go will never leave. They will go on, as now, behaving on the job as if "there's no future in it"; they have given up hope of making for themselves in Britain the kind of life they want. In short, the main limiting factor on opportunity in Britain's welfare state is that so many of its people believe there is no real opportunity. The debilitating...
...passage . . . While the noise came nearer the dormitory, the walls, ceiling and floor of the passage re-echoed and trembled behind it ... The students in the dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco, I am saved.' . . . The seminarists leapt out of bed and fled without knowing where to go . . . All had heard the noise and some of them the voice without gathering...
...Pentagon, he looks about, comments, inquires, and finding that waging war is still Earth's mightiest talent, is all ready to wage an outsized one himself. After that, though satire still fitfully raises its slightly aching head, Visit introduces just about every known vaudeville and revue routine except xylophone-playing and sawing a woman in half. There is an animal act of a sort. There is a mind-reading act. There is a display of levitation. There is, every so often, a monologuist. There are Imitations of Woodland Sounds and Jungle Noises. There is a musical number, a sort...