Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Except Presbyterian--perhaps the best team the Varsity will meet until the squad faces Yale in the middle of May--the opponents on the trip were none too challenging. The first two matches were played in the cold, 35-degree atmosphere of northern Virginia, where the Crimson defeated the Byrd Park Tennis Association, a fairly good team, by 9-6 on a strong showing in the doubles matches. The next day, Sunday, March 29, the squad whipped the Country Club of Virginia very soundly...
...acres of well-kept land 80 miles northeast of Seoul, Korea, stands the village of New Chorwon, where some 500 people make a living from crops of potatoes, wheat, cabbage and barley. It is not an unusual village-except in being a village at all. Four years ago, the site was war-ravaged wasteland and the villagers hopeless wanderers. What gave them life was the gift of a 68-year-old Philadelphia lawyer who does not believe in Christmas presents but does believe in President Eisenhower's idea that foreign aid can be on a person-to-person basis...
...discuss Central Africa were that "I have only lived there 48 years," and that he knows more about the subject than "itinerant politicians" who, he said, prowl about Africa, writing for left-wing newspapers and stirring up the natives. Visiting M.P.s such as Laborite John Stonehouse ("really quite harmless, except that he was extremely ignorant") had been completely taken in by the Africans, who "until they are very much advanced are all liars." When the hubbub in the House subsided, His Lordship went on to talk about the "burden, at any rate, the mission [of] looking after Nyasaland. I should...
...religion," says Romney, "is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life...
...waterfall in back) that he built last year in fashionable Bloomfield Hills. (When he invited the auto industry brass for a housewarming, one G.M. wife remarked dryly: "George, you've bought yourself quite a gas guzzler.") He begins his day at 5 a.m., uses the first daylight hours, except when snow is on the ground, to play solitary golf with luminous balls at a country club next to his home. He keeps no score, dashes up and lunges at the ball, then chases it across the fairway at a fast jog. Caddies call him "the ghost...