Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...years Dewey has kept dissident Republican politicians in check with the threat that "he would soon be in the White House." The 1948 election exploded that myth for everyone except Dewey's closest advisers. If enough rural Republicans in northern New York stay away from the polls or refuse to vote for Dewey because of his "dictatorial" rule of the state, the governor may not have a large enough majority to overcome Lynch's Democratic sweep of New York City...
...Taft campaign literature--ranging from a 218-page "blackbook" summary of Taft's record in the Senate to a comic book denouncing the Republican--are being distributed daily. The whole election is being fought on the issue of Taft's rather than Ferguson. Ferguson has little concrete to sell except a policy designed for him by Charles West, a former Roosevelt assistant, and Henry Busch, a professor at Western Reserve...
...then Czerny, whose knuckle-cracking exercises have been the nemesis of piano students for the last hundred years. Liszt, from his piano, interjected a Fuocoso molto energico; the slender Chopin added an exquisite largo. At last, in his finale, Liszt wittily and skillfully parodied the styles of the others-except Czerny and Chopin, whom he respected too much. The audience buzzed with excitement. Tickled, Liszt later published the whole thing with the name Hexameron, often played it on his own programs...
Nowadays, ragtime is almost forgotten, except for the occasional rippling of Nola or Piano Roll Blues from a jukebox. But it is worth remembering, say Authors Blesh and Janis, as "a part of [America's] folk-song and a part...
...Except for harelip (a condition usually found with cleft palate), for which operations may begin when the baby is only a few days...