Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...runs he will get the Stalinazi vote. . . . Dewey has no program, foreign or domestic, except that little Tommy wants to be President...
Lanky right-hander Burgy Ayres will get the call to start on the mound for the home-guard while hurler Ed Barry should go the route for the New England College champions. Coach Stahl's forces will be at full strength except for Captain Tom Healey. A sore flinging arm will keep him from his regular job on the slope and from his auxiliary role in the vacant right field spot. As a result either Lee Hartstone or Bill Parsons will take over in the outer reaches...
Paris itself was declared part of the Army zone. Busses disappeared, crowds were forbidden even on cafe terraces, walking on the public highway was not allowed, "except for the performance of a public mission." Alert for signs of a Fifth Column, authorities posted guards at each of Paris' gates, interned all German nationals (Nazis and anti-Nazis alike) in two huge bicycle-racing arenas, prepared to apply sternly Premier Reynaud's threat that "for every weakness there will be the penalty of death...
...authorities added an anti-parachutist civic guard for every commune in France, armed all police and planted strong forces at all airdromes. Disregarding rumors of Allied routs, which Premier Rey naud told them were planted by Nazis, Paris did its best to resume daily routine all, that is, except 25,000 school children who were whisked off to the provinces...
...also have moved the headquarters of the two larg est steamship companies (Rotterdamsche Lloyd and Stoomvaart Nederland) in the Indies trade. In London, Manhattan and Batavia, operators of the Dutch fleet of 1,500 merchantmen have already set up joint offices and Dutch shipping is doing business as usual, except that Holland ports have been dropped from call, except that in war zones its ships join Allied convoys. Up to the time Germany invaded the Low Countries, Holland had lost more merchantmen to mines and torpedoes than had France...