Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every goal but one was scored when the teams were at full strength, and on a carefully set up play, not a defensive mistake. Play was rugged--vicious during the initial two periods--and the passing and play making was accurate and crisp, except for a slight let-down on the varsity's part during the final stanza...
...decision for the future up to the Assembly. He was quitting, Ne Win blandly explained, because the original six-month mandate given him by the Assembly last October was insufficient to restore law and order and prepare for national elections. After a decorous debate last week, all parties except the Red-lining National United Front agreed with Ne Win and amended the constitution to let the general resume power-and again prepare for elections. Target date: some time before...
...cruel and inhuman manner." "Well," came the soft, well-rehearsed response, "my husband has become interested in another woman.'' When the five-minute colloquy in a Los Angeles court ended, the 3½-year marriage of Cineminx Debbie Reynolds and Crooner Eddie Fisher was over. Except for the property settlement and alimony. Eddie was free, although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom's price was high. Debbie kept: a Palm Springs ranch, seven life insurance policies, three bank accounts...
Clearly not having the time of his life, Author William Saroyan sailed for a film assignment in Yugoslavia, disclosed a little human comedy all his own: "I owe $30,000 in back income taxes. I don't have anything except old clothes." In fact, he added, "I need about $200,000 to get on my feet"-and unless he gets it, he might stay abroad the rest of his life...
...school-where he got instruction in such matters as "language arts and social studies, whatever that means," Mary Krai recalls with scorn-his parents refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff, 5½-day-a-week curriculum for the boy, taught all the courses themselves except German. They are well enough qualified to do so; they are college graduates, and Mary Krai has held teaching certificates from Nebraska and Colorado. Her 35-year-old husband was trained as a chemist, now heads the Minneapolis Mining & Manufacturing Co.'s applied mathematics & statistics department...