Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pipes, old wheels, set them up on fields and roads and solemnly served them while umpires stretched their imaginations. There were few .50-calibre anti-aircraft guns. The shortage was made up by lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented by the day from civilians to fill out the National Guard...
...shave, brush their teeth, skylark. The supply system, running in food and ammunition for an army bigger than the population of Schenectady, N. Y., had worked without a major hitch. Staff work was better than it had ever been before, traffic ran without road clogs. Soldiers behaved better. Except for two besotted regulars who went on window-breaking and larceny rampages (and got jail terms from a court martial), the deportment record was near-perfect...
...British War Office made the best of it by declaring that its purpose in defending Somaliland at all was "to inflict the maximum losses on the enemy until withdrawal became inevitable. ... All guns except two . . . have been embarked. A great part of the materiel, stores and equipment has also been evacuated and the remainder destroyed. Our wounded have been safely brought away. . . . Enemy losses, particularly among the Blackshirt units, have been heavy and out of all proportion...
...Except for German Army cars, everyone in Paris went on foot, on bicycles, or dived into the suffocatingly crowded Métro. The rich resurrected carriages and rode behind cockaded coachmen in barouches or victorias. One banker found a tandem bicycle; put his chauffeur up front, went through the motions of pedaling behind. By night Paris was dead except for the distant thunder of the R. A. F. blasting away at the Le Bourget or Villacoublay airfields...
...Collins, 85, putters among her souvenirs, cackles affably, with many a "yea" and "nay," makes and sells braided rugs. She is one of the orphans who stuck with the Shakers. When a visitor last week remarked on the variety of Shaker work, Elderess Sarah explained: "Yea, we made everything except babies...