Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate. East of the Mississippi no Democrat unseated a Republican House incumbent-and West of the Mississippi no Republican unseated a Democratic incumbent. Outside the South. Republicans carried at least 193 congressional districts; the Democrats carried fewer than 130. The Republicans cracked all traditionally Democratic ethnic and religious blocs except (amid the Israel crisis) the Jewish. In the South, every one of the five Southern Republican Congressmen held on to his seat. Ike rolled up a bigger popular vote in six Southern states than in 1952, and for the first time since the Civil War there was a genuine framework...
...year-old Englishwoman whom rebels had released from seven years' solitary confinement in a 4 ft. 6 in. wide, fungus-ridden AVH cell. Said onetime lecturer and translator Dr. Edith Bone: "I was a 'secret prisoner.' No one in the world knew about me except the secret police. There are many thousands, perhaps millions, living, rotting like that in Iron Curtain countries." Explained Dr. Bone: "I was innocent [of the charge of being a British spy] but I was also guilty. I had been a Communist and I had helped build the machine of which...
...short, so long as Britain, France and Israel had not purged themselves of their aggressions, they were on their own. But Eisenhower had also served notice on the Kremlin in a White House statement: the U.S. would not allow any "new force" to intervene in the Middle East situation except under the mandate of the U.N. This was a characteristically quiet way of asserting a tough stand: the U.S. would not let the Russians intervene...
Next morning, surprisingly brisk and bright-eyed, he turned up at his office for the first time in a fortnight. Ben-Gurion drafted replies to Eisenhower and Bulganin. Asked how he felt, he grunted: "I have no time to feel ill." He called in leaders of all political parties except the Communists to tell them that the U.N. and the great powers were "not content with a mere cease-fire...
Unlike Anthony Eden, France's Socialist Premier Guy Mollet had to answer no cries of national conscience over the Suez landings. For Mollet there was no Archbishop of Canterbury reading lessons in simple Christian morals or Labor opposition demanding his head: the French Assembly, except for the Communists and Poujadists, was united behind his invasion of Egypt...