Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...take us across. Finally, we decided that it was pointless to attempt to find boats during the night and in our weakened condition. We headed toward a KMAG housing area on Seoul's outskirts. It was then about three. Inside the abandoned U.S. military reservation it was quiet except for the boom of guns and heavy mortars in the distance. We found one house with a light still burning inside...
...cameras roved to the observers' section, where little Ambassador John Chang of Korea, who had not been in bed for 63 hours, stared wearily at his shoes and awaited his invitation to the table. At 3:16 p.m., with every seat at the horseshoe filled except the one marked U.S.S.R., the cameras swerved to India's white-haired Sir Benegal Rau as he cleared his throat, rapped for order and opened the 474th meeting of the United Nations Security Council...
...were all set to go home in September after two years abroad. Tonight my mother told us my dad has to take over Ambassador Harriman's job and we can't go home except for a two-month visit this summer. Now I ask you, how would you like to be able to go home to America only once for two months in two years...
...necessary to launch a major conflict. . . Taxes: House Ways and Means Committee plans to repeal excise on baby oil and powder . . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans . . . Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment, retail business, steel, and white-collar occupations . . . General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52-if the time is ripe, his wife approves, the stars favor him, the Democrats fold up, and the Republicans give...
...printed form, The Lottery had almost as many interpretations as it had readers. As adapted for TV, it was an emotionally moving, if logically unconvincing, indictment of prejudice. "They did a beautiful job," commented Author Jackson, "except that I don't think it was my story...