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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office, does paperwork steadily until 8. then adjourns for dinner and a quiet evening with his wife. Determined to avoid the nervous strain that wore 25 Ibs. off one of his predecessors, he makes it a rule that he is not to be disturbed in the evening except for a grave emergency. So far there has been no emergency his staff considered that grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man of the Year | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...Process. Though it says nothing about habeas corpus, jury trial, or the presumption that a man is innocent until proved guilty (a concept denounced as "middleclass nonsense" during last week's debate), the new Soviet code lays down that the Soviet citizen may not be punished except for specified crimes and only after what is by Red lights, due process of law. Presumably, that bars the security police from carrying off people, as they carried off millions in Stalin's time," by their own "administrative processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The New Law | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...brothers," cried Cairo's Voice of the Arabs last week, "on the right there is imperialism, and on your left is also imperialism. You don't want to replace one camp with any other except the camp of Arabism." And Radio Damascus chimed in "The left may have become more dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Out of the Woodwork | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi Musso, Hawthorn decided to devote his energies to his garage in Surrey. Said the champion: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself, except that it's better to get out when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lance's Legacy | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...country, Schoolma'am Campbell became friendlylike with Aunt Lizbeth Fields, who had a big store of tales about all manner of things golden; and with Big Nelt, who was mighty queer-turned and droll-natured but a right accommodating man even if he didn't wear shoes except in chilling weather; and with Uncle Tom Dixon, who favored tales where things go in threes. Most all the stories are tales the tellers had always just known, tales that were told in the generations of their kin, way back to the old country across the ocean waters. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mountain Frolics | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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