Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy, so Canadians discovered that their young, dynamic land was increasingly able to stand on its own feet. Canada did not tumble into the V-shaped chasm that threatened briefly to trap the U.S. economy. If anything, Canada's recession was milder than the slump in the U.S. Except in the winter months, unemployment hit a smaller part of the working force in Canada. Industrial production sagged less sharply, recovered earlier. At year's end Canadians added up a new $32 billion record for Gross National Product...
Such reactions to journalism schools have mostly gone out of style with U.S. editors who no longer seem to fly into spike-throwing rages at the notion that the craft of journalism can be taught in any school except the school of pavement-pounding, doorbell-ringing experience. Most papers now prefer to hire the J-school graduate because he does have some practical experience, however limited, grafted on to a liberal arts education, however minimal. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Managing Editor Ed Stone expresses the prevailing attitude: "We hire the best man, whether he's had journalism...
...surveying crew surprised some Indian children in a jungle clearing. All fled except a ten-year-old boy who scurried up a palm tree and was caught. He went into paroxysms of trembling, sweating and moaning, but his captors treated him kindly, and after a while he quieted down, announced that his name was Koi and that he was a Xetá. He was sent to Curitiba, where he was taught to speak Portuguese and was brought up almost like a son by the director of the local office of the Indian Protection Service. In civilized clothes...
...announced it would take back any "Christmas gift which doesn't fit, which is the wrong size or pattern or color, which is simply not wanted, or which duplicates another Christmas gift." For the first time ever, the offer was not restricted to Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said it would exchange goods from its "competitors, other stores in Texas or Alaska, or for that matter anywhere in the U.S. or in the world." If a gift is pure junk, the store said it would still...
...potboiler between more serious efforts-which for him it probably is. But underneath the fun it is also plain that Gary is taking some familiar types for a humiliating ride-all those who love humanity so much that they cannot love people, who can give everything to a cause except their hearts...