Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Obviously Candidate Dewey had not hurt his political standing any by his social behavior. Not only had he expressed his feelings about Commies in the bluntest possible way, he had also shown that he was no man to break bread with a Red and like it. And except for the Reds and their friends, no one could work up much indignation over the governor's manners. Even the professionally proper could only cluck disapprovingly. "What he said was entirely true," said the Times, "but there is a time and place for everything...
When, two days later, Guatemala's Dr. Ismael Gonzalez Arevalo asked the Assembly to rise for a moment of tribute to the soldiers who had died in the U.N. cause in Korea, all delegates stood up except the Russians, their satellites and the Yugoslavs...
...friend and ally. But the fact is that no meaningful change in the U.S. Government's attitude toward the recognized government of Nationalist China has been made apparent in Taipei. I can also report that no one in Taipei is aware of any substantial "Question of Formosa," except the problem created and sustained by our Government's apparent determination to eliminate the Chinese Nationalists from Asia...
...nearly 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked man that...
...year after her first visit to the clinic, Margaret Pierce became gravely ill, was admitted to another hospital. The nurse who put her to bed was surprised to find that she carried $4,000 in cash. Within three days Margaret Pierce was dead. Soon her will was filed; except for $1,000 to a cousin, she had left everything to Memorial, but hospital officials did not expect it would amount to much. Last week, when her safe deposit box was opened, jewelry, stocks, bonds, gold and bank books showed that Margaret Pierce had repaid Memorial's kindness...