Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...vote on Friday, but they had reckoned without West Virginia's Senator. Many-hued Matt Neely arose. On Friday, he announced in his best stumping voice, the Young Democratic Club of West Virginia would be holding a rally. He wanted to be there. "In my opinion," he declaimed, "except the saving of immortal souls, the most important thing this side of the grave to the people of the world is the success of the Democratic Party in the approaching election. The success of the Democratic Party in the nation is largely dependent upon its success in West Virginia...
...luncheon guest-the leader of a group of Indo-Chinese Nationalist intellectuals who are still undecided about supporting French-sponsored Emperor Bao Dai-smiled down at the kids in the street. "Like most peoples of Asia," he said, "we are chronic gamblers. Except," he added thoughtfully, "in politics, where we like a sure thing...
...demolished bridges, by wading, by swimming. The angry U.S. planes followed them; the invaders died by hundreds in the green water and on gleaming sand spits. At least 1,500 enemy dead were counted and 800 prisoners were taken. General MacArthur announced that the Changnyong bridgehead was completely liquidated except for a few pockets which were being easily mopped...
...third of his four weeks as Security Council president passed in continued stalemate. India's suggestion that a small-power committee draft Korean peace aims (TIME, Aug. 21) did not get beyond the cautious, tentative stage. There was no chance that the Russians would agree to any peace except their own terms, i.e., negotiated victory for the North Koreans...
...Anthony (Winchester '73) Mann. To satisfy his enthusiasm for arty, heavily filtered photography, virtually all the outdoor scenes take place in the murky half-light of dawn or dusk, to the point where the movie seems to suggest that the sun never really shone in the old Southwest. Except for a gusty, artful performance by Actor Huston-the last before his death in April-The Furies is notable only as a sample of what Zane Grey might have done if he had tried to write like Eugene O'Neill...