Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Zorin to drop his resolution condemning Hammarskjold for exceeding his powers in the Congo. Stunned, Zorin meekly complied, then sat in frozen silence as the Assembly, by a historic vote of 70 to 0, gave Hammarskjold a ringing endorsement and demanded that no nation ship arms to the Congo except through...
President de Gaulle does not favor generals in politics, except himself. After the May 13 uprising, he had first promoted but then fired firebrand Paratroop General Jacques Massu. He also kept a wary eye on General Salan, first shunting him off to the largely honorific post of military governor of Paris, then retiring him to the reserve. Salan elected to buy a house in Algiers and plan a new future...
...bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year than anyone else except Vanderford...
...dragging carelessly behind. His smile is big, showy, meaningless. His hands are furtive, fiddling, scratching. His eyes are busy, empty, dead. It can, of course, be objected that Olivier's Archie is more a mannerism than a man, that Olivier does everything Archie would do in real life-except live. But then Archie himself did everything except live...
...Much Pressure. Since the report steps on nearly every Frenchman's toes-except the consumer's-and since nearly every French worker or businessman belongs to an organized, articulate pressure group, the cries of outrage were predictable. Sniffed the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises: "A perfect insignificance and a complete platitude, a collection of all the commonplaces...