Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shredded the codes, and did their valiant best to wreck the electronic gear with axes, sledge hammers and hand grenades. In the process, apparently, one sailor's leg was blown off and three others were injured. According to a Defense Department official, Bucher's instructions "covered everything except being boarded...
...recent years to assert North Korea's independence, slipping out of China's orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors. Kim has built around him self a cult of personality that is exceeded in the Communist world only by Mao Tse-tung's, and he personally sets the tone of toughness and arrogance that shows up so regularly in North Korea...
...several years of conducting this inhuman war, can your country say that its prestige has risen one inch? From this war you have gained absolutely nothing, and in the eyes of public opinion you have lost very much. Absolutely nobody can say a good-word about this dirty war-except a group of persons waxing rich on it. History will never forgive the U.S., and those responsible for the American policy should realize this full well...
...marching with faltering step and bristling temper into his pitiable dotage. He has sapped the life out of his wife (Lillian Gish), bullied his middle-aged son (Hal Holbrook) into something resembling psychic impotence, and barred his door to a daughter (Teresa Wright) because she married a Jew. Except for the sense of mortality that makes every dying old man a portent of what lies in store for all humanity, there is no particular reason for anyone to care about this father. But Holbrook wants to love him, and tries. The effort mostly takes the form of talk -on filial...
Between Murphy and Bill Shrout, a senior freestyler, Harvard is sure of four firsts in almost every meet except Yale, where Don Schollander overshadows everybody. So far this year the combination has been good enough to help the team to a 4-1 record. In the only loss so far, to Army, the duo provided its usual four wins; but the Cadet reserves piled up the seconds and thirds and pulled out the meet...