Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...that there are no sinners [in the Senate] except the other fellow. Each man is busily engaged in trying to extract the mote from his brother's eye, and is not at all concerned about the beam...
...held out on a silver platter. Britain, France and the rest of the twelve North Atlantic partners would be told that they were expected, for their part, to start implementing paper plans with men and guns. Actually, there was no longer much argument on what had to be done, except for the vital detail of arming Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS). Jolted from its daydreams by Korea, the West had finally begun to take the steps that should have been taken long before...
November: Nothing special happened except our club elected officers. I didn't make...
...Tribune seemed to think the answer to both questions was yes. On the Tribune's front page one morning, readers found two local stories (FENCE PUZZLE NO ALDERMAN CAN STRADDLE; FIND WOMEN "SMUGGLED" INTO JAIL INMATES) and eight national and international stories, but no mention of the war, except a four-line box tucked in a Washington dispatch: "South Koreans fall back a mile . . . Details on page 9." On page 9, the Trib covered the Korean fighting with two brief wire-service stories. Explained a Trib deskman: "There wasn't much developing in the war that...
Hemingway has no opinion in regard to General Eisenhower except that he is an extremely able administrator and an excellent politician. H. believes he did a marvelous job in organizing the invasion, if he was actually the man who organized it. H. means Hemingway, which I am tired of writing, and he in the above sentence means Eisenhower. Let us revere Eisenhower, Bedell Smith, the memory of Georgie Patton. But Hemingway refuses to revere Montgomery as man or soldier, and would rather be stood up against a wall and shot than make that reverence. He is the gentleman who took...