Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...obviously thought he had it made-and meant to keep it if he could. It was a holding operation. His big purpose was to jack up Communism's prestige in Southeast Asia, which had been severely damaged by the aggressive conduct of his Chinese ally. Except perhaps in Afghanistan, his crowds were thin, especially compared to President Eisenhower's-and worse, his audiences were not really with him this time. His efforts to stay neutral on the Chinese-Indian border dispute were not sufficient to win the affection of neutralist Indians, who on this issue ardently believe there...
...Private capital investment in Latin America now totals $9 billion more than the U.S. businessman has invested anywhere in the world except Canada...
Four on the Line. Compact cars are doing so well that except for Cadillac and Lincoln, just about every auto division will have an entry by October...
Symphonies & Sausage. That a sex murderer may also serve the Life Force is the notion behind Ritual in the Dark, and it will probably convince no one except Author Wilson. Ever since Colin (The Outsider) Wilson scrambled to fame out of a Hampstead Heath sleeping bag five years ago, he has been working on this first novel, loosely modeled on the saga of Jack the Ripper. During three months in 1888, the infamous ripper slashed six women to death, all but one of whom were middleaged, drink-sodden prostitutes. He was never captured...
...point Private Post found himself slipping on mud "made by the blood of the dead and wounded." When the men got to San Juan Hill, they rushed up as if it were "a football field when the game is over and a mess of people are straggling across it, except that these men were on the run, yelling, and with no time to lose...