Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...chores. They were paid to make repairs hold discussions, to keep a record of their activities, and even to write several paragraphs like "Why Kids Foul Up." One 17- wrote, "Because they do not have some of things they want and there is no way to them except to steal and you still do not what you want by stealing them." According a 19-year-old, "Quite frequently kids get stealing cars, so, for my first reason on why foul up, I shall say, for kicks. Most kids up because of ignorance, I mean they don't any other...
...Manhattan, one was conspicuously odd man out. Red Premier Mehmet Shehu of Albania was not on the Baltika's passenger list, got to Manhattan as an ordinary passenger on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth. At a Communist Czech reception, Shehu stood forlornly in a corner, studiously avoided by everybody except the State Department security man assigned as his bodyguard. And when, at a party given by the Rumanian Reds, Khrushchev took his satellite cronies into a back room for a chat, the door was shut in Shehu's face as he started to follow them...
Minus his mountaineering equipment, Britain's Sir John Hunt, leader of the expedition in which Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Guide Tenzing climbed Mount Everest in 1955, popped up at a boys' school in Nottinghamshire, was prepared to answer almost all questions except one: "What did Sir Edmund say after conquering Everest?" Brows knit, Sir John at length blurted: "He said, 'We've knocked the bastard...
...explosive isotope in natural uranium, was hard to get, only the biggest powers could afford nuclear bombs. Now everybody-Mao, Castro, Nasser or whoever-may soon be able to have a bomb of his own. Previously, U-235 was almost impossible to separate from nonexplosive U-238, except with great expense and difficulty. But, said Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, last week: "recent advances in [centrifuge] technology have now brought the capability of producing weapons-grade material within the reach of not just a few but of many nations...
Star witness for Belli was famed New Orleans Surgeon Alton Ochsner, one of the most outspoken of all doctors in his conviction that smoking causes cancer. Said Ochsner: "I have yet to see the physician who will not admit that tobacco causes cancer except the doctors employed by the tobacco companies and the doctor who is addicted." Ochsner said he had examined the autopsy material on Lartique and was positive he had died of lung cancer induced by excessive smoking...