Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...block." Then the President, a modest man whose strength lies in the fact that he is not enigmatic but is widely and deeply understood, set forth the face of the future as the U.S. sees it. "Fellow Americans," the President said, "we venerate more widely than any other document, except only the Bible, the American Declaration of Independence. It stands enshrined today as a charter of human liberty and dignity. Until these things belong to every living person, their pursuit is an unfinished business...
...Farm labor is specifically excluded from wage-and-hour provisions of the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, from minimum wage laws in every state except Wisconsin, and from unemployment insurance in every state but Hawaii...
Acting under Article 29 of the U.N. Charter, Lodge called for the creation of a "procedural" subcommittee of inquiry, rather than for an "investigating" group that would be substantive and thus subject to the veto. On the Bandwagon. Cleared in advance with all Council members except the Soviet Union, the Lodge resolution passed...
...barrel aimed at Cambodia. Statistics are foreign to the Laotian mind, and the population can only be guessed at; estimates range from 1,000,-ooo to 4,000,000. Though it possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos has no railroad. Except for jungle paths, navigable rivers like the 1,200-mile Mekong, and barely 500 miles of all-weather road, all travel is by plane from rutted airstrips surrounded by tree-clad hills and swamps...
...constitutional monarchy within the modern Commonwealth of Nations, the Governor General, though he lives in high style at Government House, no longer governs except for the once-in-a-lifetime occasion when politicians disagree, and he must choose a Prime Minister to form a government. Vanier was picked by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and in all important respects serves as the Queen's standin, exercising her powers and prerogatives. His main function is to exemplify the unifying symbol of the Crown in his travels across the land. His predecessor set an arduous example...