Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Within three-quarters of a mile of the burst, "substantial destruction of all except modern, reinforced concrete and heavy steel-frame buildings; up to 1½ miles, complete destruction of most old-style brick and frame buildings, and serious damage to modern buildings. Slight damage (plaster and glass) up to eight miles away. For at least two miles from the burst, streets blocked by rubble, and power, light and water lines knocked...
Ties with the Front. Despite the S.O.B.'s best disruptive efforts, the Korean crisis has brought a new sense of purpose to most of U.N.'s 3,200 staffers- except the 300 to 400 Communists and fellow travelers who are apt to skulk in corners (Western delegations try to bypass them to get necessary work done...
...been flamboyant in gesture and voice. This time, on the advice of his aides, he held himself to a quieter, lower and more effective pitch (which also came across better on television). The chamber was tense and hushed as Austin spoke. All the faces around the Council table (except those of the Russians and the long, smart-aleck face of Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler) looked pleased; by the end Secretary General Trygve Lie wore a wide grin. Said Austin...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, peripatetic Playwright Tennessee Williams explained that "the American artist travels [because] America is no longer a terribly romantic part of the world, and writers, all except, possibly, Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis, are essentially romantic spirits...
...Oxford University Press; $4.75), British-born Educator Charles A. Siepmann disposed of radio's old argument that it is just giving the public what it wants. Wrote Siepmann: "[That] theory makes as much sense as if a large department store were to clear its shelves of all commodities except the best-selling lines." If popular acceptance of programs is the measure of good radio, said Siepmann, then all radio is good, because Russians, Britons, Danes and Swedes listen to their radios as much as Americans...