Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential election, 62,025,576 Americans voted (an estimated 77.4% of the total eligible), breaking the previous record, set in 1952, by 473,658. Final official returns (except Rhode Island, where a handful of absentee ballots remained to be counted), computed last week, showed Republican Dwight Eisenhower with 35,575,420, giving him a plurality of 9,542,354 over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whose total was 26,033,066. Ike's margin of actual votes was the largest ever awarded a Republican candidate, but still ran second to Franklin Roosevelt's 11,072,014-vote plurality over Republican...
...Americans in general are beginning to realize, is neither a series of blurred engravings out of half-forgotten school histories nor a dim reflection of painting abroad. For the past two centuries it has stood on its own feet, comparing favorably with the art of every other nation except France. Drawing depth and drama from the history it helps illustrate, it has reflected not European painting but American life-rough and smooth, tumultuous and diverse. And though it is a great river of many sources and many passing moods, its strongest single current throughout is a searching realism. One measure...
Letters last year, Hopper fled to Mexico. He came back and accepted it only after being assured that he would not have to say anything except "Thanks...
...Painter Louis Bouche once chatted for a long stretch to Hopper, without getting the least response, and finally blurted: "Oh hell, peekaboo!" Even Mrs. Hopper (who does the family's share of talking) confesses that "sometimes talking with Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn't thump when it hits bottom...
Happy smiles decorated every face in Ellenville except that of generous Banker Rose. Reason: as soon as his bank was closed, his $25,000 check for bail, drawn on his personal account, had bounced, and he was jailed...