Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Manhattan passers-by would. Castro and his cronies (who were hard put to find a hotel willing to put them up), were told bluntly by the State Department to leave their accustomed shooting irons at home. Khrushchev and some of his puppets were denied freedom of movement beyond Manhattan (except, perhaps, for a trip to the U.S.S.R.'s estate at Glen Cove, Long Island). The reason, explained the State Department, was that security precautions could not be guaranteed in the light of the bitterness toward Khrushchev which had grown so monumental since his first visit. There was bound...
TIME believes that the new sched ule better fits the pattern of breaking news as well as the changing reading habits of the nation. Most news, except for disasters and other unexpected events, happens on the world's working days and tends to peak at the end of the week. So, the editors reasoned, it would be logical to put TIME "to bed" Saturday night, conduct most of the printing operation (already the fastest of its kind in the world) during the relatively quieter Sunday hours, and get the magazine to its readers earlier...
Victims not so much of any enemy except wild chaos and disorder, the returning chipper and cheerful airmen were a welcome sample of American mission in a week when the U.S. was humiliated by the defection to Moscow of two trusted security employees (see below). Said Lieut. Kenneth E. Stickevers, his right hand in a splint and his left bandaged: "We do this for a living. We'll go anywhere, any time...
...professional politician experienced in the operation of party machinery. He found many of the day-to-day troubles of the party tedious, and. in particular, he loathed the problem of patronage. The President never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill. Except in the case of certain members who happened to be proficient golfers, there has not been any true comradeship between the White House and the Republicans in Congress...
Some things were found puzzling. Why do British novelists shy away from any description of work? The conclusion: "Many of them never do a day's work in their lives (except in wartime) ... Those who come from the working class emancipate themselves from it as quickly as possible." Ultimately, "the things our novelists know about are the grades and subtleties and shifts of society . . . with a special emphasis on childhood which leads them towards fantasies of guilt and innocence." What the British novel needs to day, says the oracular Times, is "not less art, but more life...