Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons and dealt with the German problem in his greatest speech since the war. Said Churchill: "There can be no hope for a united Europe without Germany, and there is no hope for Germany except within a free and united Europe . . . France and Britain . . . have the superior power to raise
Lowered Flags. Within a few hours Canada's capital was in mourning for Laurence Steinhardt, one of the ablest and most popular ambassadors the U.S. had ever sent abroad. All over the city (except at the Soviet embassy) flags flew at half-staff. Telegraph companies hired extra messengers to deliver the stacks of telegrams. At the U.S. embassy, a second receptionist was assigned to receive the crowds that came to pay respects...
...Boston paper except the Christian Science Monitor, which newsmen regard as a national rather than Boston paper and thus to be excepted by critics of the Boston press, has a full-time Washington correspondent. Since few of the papers give any consistent play to national and international news, they don't think special correspondents worth the expense...
...second type of color tube works in a similar way, except that each of the three colors is produced by its own special "gun." Whenever a beam is uncovered by one of the infinitesimal holes in the mask, the right color dot appears at the right point on the screen...
South Pacific, celebrating its first anniversary by taking an eight-day Lenten vacation, looked this week more than ever like the biggest hit in Broadway history. Except for a few seats in August, the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II-Joshua Logan musical was sold out through September, and the ticket demand was still big. The advance sale...