Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...eight minutes after midnight Wallace was nominated; the lights went out in the Chicago Stadium except for the spotlights glaring on a grisly, grey painting of President Roosevelt; at 12:20 a.m. C.D.S.T. the President began to speak. Vice-Presidential revolt had cut his audience-it was 1:20 E. D. S. T. in New York; 10:20 in Denver; 9:20 in the Pacific Coast cities. It was the nocturnal life of the U. S. that caught his words and their intonation-the taxi drivers, the sleepless passengers in deluxe trains, the patrons of bars and restaurants-most workmen...
...surprise to most of the world in the Nazi drive through the Lowlands and northern France was the terrible accuracy of German dive bombers. Except for the U. S. Naval Air Service (which originated dive bombing, still works hard and ably at it), few of the world's air forces had fully realized the sharpshooting possibilities of a heavy bomb projected straight & true from a diving airplane...
Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech (see p. 21) was not transmitted over Russian stations. The German radio announced that the speech had been translated into and rebroadcast in every conceivable language-except Russian. The Russian radio failed even to mention the speech. All this in spite of Herr Hitler's confident statement on Russo-German relations: "A veritable Wandering Jew among [British] hopes is the belief in the possibility of a fresh estrangement between Germany and Russia." Working like a beaver on those hopes in Moscow last week was Britain's new Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps...
...full of shoals, has well-defined channels, is well within the range of aircraft operating from Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami, Pensacola and dozens of inland fields. To the east the 706 islands of the Bahamas protect it, forming a tactical screen, an ideal area for submarines, destroyers, advanced aircraft bases. Except for attack by an overwhelming naval force, the Florida passage is invulnerable. Five hundred miles east of the Strait, between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage. Commanding the passage is the U. S. Navy...
...Finally the Japanese turned their transmitter over to some Shanghai Nazis. Nowadays all Japanese ships in China waters have instructions to turn on their radio buzzers when Alcott goes on the air, but even when combined with land station jamming, the din they set up is not overly effective except in downtown Shanghai. On his program, Alcott usually announces when the interference is about to begin, advises his listeners to head for the suburbs if they want to hear him clearly...