Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...policy. He arrived in London with the attacks of Senator Joseph McCarthy still buzzing in his ears-a fact solicitously noted in the British press. Wrote the London Economist: "It would not be surprising if he and his adviser's were to arrive with nothing in their heads except lists of organizations to which they had never belonged, subversive characters they had never met ... It is certainly unlikely that they can bring much in the way of new thought and sparkling policies . . . The fault will not be in them but in their scars...
...public humiliation Monti and his wife shut themselves in their small house. That night the Montis' lights did not go on, and the house was silent except for the call of a pet blackbird which Monti had taught to whistle Red Flag. After two such nights, the neighbors called the carabinieri, who had to knock down the door to get into the house...
...Sardinian sculptures were paired off in the exhibition with works by such contemporary trail blazers as Picasso, Archipenko, Braque and Giacometti. The 20th Century sculptures were similar but less meaningful, for while the Sardinian bronzes embodied something of their own culture, the moderns reflected nothing except older and more earnest...
Died. Bertha ("Chippie") Hill, 45, brass-voiced blues singer in the oldtime Bessie Smith tradition; after being hit by an automobile; in Harlem. Chippie would try any request from her stomping audiences except a hymn: "You can't play with God in a nightclub ... As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with...
Snitchler then set out to find the origin of the bust, which was undamaged except for a small scratch over the left one. The only clues were the inscription on the front of the statue, "Charles Tallinn 1810-1881," and the name of the clutter and the date of completion of the work on the back, "Prof. R. H. Park...