Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sunday Dispatch: "In no conceivable circumstances should members be allowed for any personal reasons to leave this island when it is threatened with invasion-for that is not representative of the British people. It is only representative of the rat. If members apply for an exit permit, except for Government business, they should be forced to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.* Moreover, unless they return to their country in its hour of need, they should forfeit their [British] nationality...
Pressure on Britain increased. Britain had weaseled its reply to Japanese demands that the Burma road, China's last channel of supply (except a dribble from Russia), be closed. Japan indicated "deep dissatisfaction," and with a rattle of rifles near Hong Kong asked for reconsideration. After some vacillation, Britain took the easy way out: Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie signed an agreement almost exactly like the one signed by beaten France last month. It closed the road to "military supplies, arms, munitions, trucks and gasoline," and permitted Japanese inspection of traffic...
...faith in those particulars which are important. We resent the term "Isolationist" as typical of the "weasel words" used by crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those whose thinking is based upon a possibly outmoded European setup. We are not Pros for anything except our own general scheme of Democracy, and we see no sense in those who apparently wish us to bite off our nose to spite our face...
...concerning his peg leg and how he acquired it were told over fine Port Royal rum to a circle of old seamen like himself, fully able to check his reminiscences of ships, battles, commanders. Such was the Doctor's art and agility that nobody ever caught him out, except in the trifling detail that he never lost his leg the same way twice...
...Except for the death in the air of the war's most celebrated casualty to date, the Southern Theatre provided little action other than minor border and naval raids. But of confusion, countermand, cross-purposes and capitulation there was dramatic news aplenty...