Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...survey in ten countries in mid-June showed that in all except one a majority thought that Russia was ahead of the U.S. in military power, and would be farther ahead by 1970. A subsequent poll reported that lagging U.S. space programs had caused a rise in neutralism and "this be lief, nurtured by propaganda and fear of reprisals, has led to a growing concern about harboring U.S. military bases...
...Jack grew up, absorbing his father's ambiguous politics, listening to the famous men and women who gathered around the Kennedy dinner table, reading prodigiously on his own. Unlike many of his generation (Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon, for example), he was untouched by the Depression and unaware, except through reading and conversations, of the traumatic effect it had on the U.S. His Catholic father insisted on a secular education for him, and Jack went to Choate, Harvard and the London School of Economics. Extensive travel in Europe, a wartime hitch as skipper of a Navy FT boat...
...cold that kept Ed Hamlin out of practice all last week has let up enough so that he can work out. Jed Fitsgerald's leg is better than it was before the Yale meet, and all the other runners are in perfect shape, except for Fred Howard, who is suffering from a tender Achilles tendon...
Meyer has heard these comments on his policy time after time in the last few years, an outsider feels; he is reiterated his ideas again and again and now has little to discuss with new party workers except the prospects the election itself. The opportunity conversing with Vermont voters have not been sufficiently exposed to ideas seems far more attractive to than the necessity of talking with professional Vermont politicians. In the outsider feels that Meyer's unfortunate compromises have not on principles but rather on his chance of associates...
Nevertheless, arguing out these issues on the local level may serve a purpose, even though many of the problems are completely artificial. Public politicking produces a consensus and often a belief that the public will is answered (a result usually taken to be more important than being right, except by Mr. Nixon who seems to think that the popular mandate is right). Politics is often the only way to resolve and release the tensions of economic, social, and ethnic conflicts...