Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which meant that the North was in complete control of the Democratic Party-except in the U.S. Congress, where senior Southerners predominate among committee chairmen, and only until 1960, when Democratic presidential candidates will start courting Southern delegates for convention votes...
...strictly orthodox is the nonconformist that it is impossible for him to say "a good word about Dulles, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson . . . James Gould Cozzens, or a bad one about Henry James, Adlai Stevenson, Lionel Trilling or Freud; to express approval of any television show (except Omnibus, Ed Murrow or Sid Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit...
...parts of the world, except the U.S. and Canada, the boycott turned out to be little more than a token effort to dramatize how the convenience-flag vessels have cost seamen in seafaring countries thousands of jobs. While the I.T.F. estimated that around 200 vessels were hit by the boycott, the number was lower; about 125 ships were affected in the U.S., eight in Canada, 30 in Europe and the rest of the world...
...Alfred Kazin's review of Breakfast at Tiffany's in the Reporter: "I liked it. Except I didn't understand the last two lines. What does he mean by 'public vice or private tears'? I don't know what that means...
...room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering $22,743 to fly turboprop Electras and a 44% hike to $27,650 annually for 707 jets. The Air Line Pilots Association has yet to make a firm counteroffer, except that the talk starts at $36,000. Both sides are so far apart that a meeting scheduled to be held last week never came off because President Sayen insisted on meeting in Chicago (his headquarters), while American insisted on Manhattan (its headquarters). Said Manhattan Federal Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan...