Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself is no angel. Operating a rumor factory, he has something on everybody ("Everybody knows Manny Davis--except Mrs. Manny Davis"). Yet he appears on television each afternoon, spreading the American Gospel: "Our best secret weapon is D-E-M-O-C-R-A-C-Y." His weakness is his devotion to Suzy, whom he doesn't want to lose. When he finally does, one feels very satisfied...
...growth and stability, says President Eisenhower, are "not two different problems . . . I believe that economic growth in the long run cannot be soundly brought about except with stability in your price structure." And the Joint Economic Committee's minority report, signed by the six Republicans on the committee, backs up the President. Fostering price stability, it says, "is not an alternative objective to a high rate of economic growth. On the contrary, it is a basic requirement for continuing growth...
...conditional" institution, such as church or state, to pose as spokesman for the "unconditional," i.e., God. According to the Protestant Principle, as he expounds it, every Yes must be coupled with a corresponding No, and the Protestant Principle "does not accept any truth of faith as ultimate, except the one that no man possesses...
After graduation from Georgetown in '50, Sigmund went to England on a Fulbright, studied for a year at the University of Durham, and "lived in a genuine medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror. It had central heating that worked except for Sundays when they tried to heat the Cathedral, too; and there was a policy of 11 o'clock close-up that meant anyone coming home later had to scale two walls and a dry moat, then climb the castle wall itself. But there were plenty of cracks...
...almost complete team for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League individual championships, beginning today at New Haven. There is no team contest, since that was determined during regular season dual-meet competition, but the Yale swimmers figure to capture a considerable number of first-place medals. Every Ivy League college except Brown, plus Army and Navy, will enter competitors...