Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder rate holds steady until 1970, when Parliament is scheduled to review the effects of the suspension, the government is extremely unlikely to call for the restoration of capital punishment. Besides, every execution device in Britain has been dismantled, with the sole exception of the gallows at Wands-worth Prison. It is kept in readiness to dispatch the few offenders still liable to the death sentence-traitors, and those guilty of the arcane crimes of arson in Her Majesty's dockyards and piracy with violence...
...West was compelled to acknowledge these gains and stop thinking about "rolling back" Communism. On the other hand, Moscow's grip on its satellites grew dramatically weaker. And beyond its original World War II conquests, Moscow won virtually nothing in the way of further Communist takeovers, with the sole exception of Cuba. Quite apart from Communism, Russia has achieved far less than it has often been credited with in the more conventional, big-power style of spreading influence, particularly in the "third world," where its potential had once seemed so menacing...
...reason and reasonableness of the Israeli terms, they have thus far been rejected outright by the defeated Arabs. With the sole exception of Tunisia, whose President, Habib Bourguiba, has long argued for making peace with Israel, the Arab governments still refuse to recognize the existence of the Jewish state. At the U.N. last week, the Arab nations and their supporters seemed determined to win back by diplomacy what their armies had lost in battle...
...dirty dozen get knocked off as they kill most of the officers and blow the building to bits in some of the loudest, bloodiest battle scenes since Darryl Zanuck made his armies work The Longest Day. In the end, Marvin makes it back to a base hospital with the sole remnant of the patrol. There, a general praises them for a job well done and fatuously commutes the sentences of the prisoners-posthumously...
Married. Hamilton Fish, 78, sole survivor (Harvard, '10) of Walter Camp's alltime, all-America football team and a courtly, conservative blueblood who took frequent potshots at the New Deal as a third-generation, longtime (1920-1945) Congressman from F.D.R.'s own New York district; and Mrs. Marie Blackton, 56, descended from a patrician Russian military family; both for the second time; in an Episcopal ceremony in New York...