Word: exception
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...apprehensive. Harry Truman's directive put an end to any argument: Wilson would be the unfettered general manager of U.S. preparedness, controlling production, prices, wages, procurement, manpower and whatever else might be necessary. He would be armed with the broadest set of powers ever granted to any citizen except a wartime President...
Then, as suddenly as it started, the strike was over. The night the President spoke, the National Mediation Board called in the union chiefs, told them to "bring your pillows" for an all-night session. No settlement was reached then, but the men, except for a handful of bitterenders, went back to work, in the morning. They had heard the President of the U.S. say: "No matter how serious you believe your grievances are, nothing can excuse the fact that you are adding to your country's danger. I ask you, in the name of our country, to return...
...lieutenant colonel of engineers, some demolition men and a reconnaissance platoon stood in the middle of the muddy road 100 yards from the edge of the town. The town itself was completely quiet except for a band of several hundred Koreans who stood disconsolately around holding aloft several South Korean flags. The colonel wanted to blow up a railroad bridge that crossed the road a few yards from where he stood, but he was having his troubles...
...professor, ominous little bag in hand, scurries for hiding through dark, deserted streets in which floodlights roam eerily over huge posters bearing his picture. Piccadilly Circus becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...
Alas, the geese were very fat, for many a princeling came seeking the hand of the Princess Saralinda, the winsome ward of the dastard Duke, and all of them met a dire fate-all, that is, except Prince Zorn of Zorna...