Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...split by schisms, numbered less than 5,000 members. Trotsky still believed the revolt of the workers would succeed. The force of that illusion made him a greater man than Joseph Stalin. It made him the man who did more to shake the world in his time than any except Lenin and Hitler...
Financially, Belgium was prostrate. Her gold was blocked in England and the U. S., and domestic bank accounts were frozen except for small monthly allowances to families. To divorce Belgium from the gold standard, German authorities opened a new note-issuing bank, prepared to circulate money based on land, property and labor...
...roll call, the men clean the camp, prepare their own and officers' food. During the day they swim, play games, get brown under the Canadian sun and fat on Canadian milk & butter. At night a Nazi colonel, the highest-ranking officer, leads them in a German song fest. Except for 75 Canadian guards, the Germans might be on vacation...
...found in the series of definitions of Canada's position in the Empire. Beginning with the colonial letters-patent and running past many milestones to the British North America Act (1867) and finally to the Statute of Westminster (1931), the Empire has gradually loosed every hold over Canada - except one. The most recent definition: "The self-governing Dominions are autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown." The person of the King is Britain's constant magnet...
...when he also saw a potter setting out his wares for sale he was amazed at the display, not of porcelain but of nerves. That afternoon the bombers returned, gutted the business district, including many foreign offices. The big Changanszu (General's Temple) was cut to the ground except for a statue of Buddha sitting on his fat haunches and smiling among the cracked bricks...