Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody expects the President to come up with anything except platitudes. I'm a lifelong Republican, but for the first time in my 53 years I'm voting Democratic. Straight, too. And that's the way it'll be until it's proved to me that there's leadership instead of press-agentmanship in the G.O.P. And Nixonman-ship is not leadership...
...vodka all evening as he toasted visiting General Hakim Amer, Nasser's grinning top soldier, and roasted "the imperialists and colonialists who try to rob and impose a perpetual yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception two days later, Premier Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union had agreed to advance the U.A.R. 400 million rubles ($40 million at the tourist...
Royal Ancestry. But "Fritz" was not out yet. As Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
...waited. Only a few sobbed. Within an hour volunteer rescuers arrived, each toting 45 Ibs. of special oxygen equipment, and started down the 13,800-ft. shaft. Eighty-one survivors were brought up, their faces blank with shock. But the faces of the others were not to be seen, except in death...
Harris stated, "If my plan really got going, we wouldn't need scholarships except as prizes in competitions. In fact, the tendency now is to give part of most grants in loans...