Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Except for a first-quarter fumble recovery at the Harvard 39 (which UMass turned around and fumbled back three plays later), the Minutemen never had field position outside their own 34-yd. line for the entire game...
...however, we see the obvious wisdom of the new program, in which freshmen never have to leave the Yard except for classes, and in which each freshman, along with five or six of his or her peers, will be assigned to an upperclass adviser. No longer will freshmen be confronted by a confusing diversity of opinions about which concentrations, classes, instructors, and extra curricular activities are most interesting, fun, and profitable--each will get one straight story from his or her assigned adviser...
...fall in the land, or any bush over seven inches high, or any other sort of sleeping place. I climbed over a barbed wire fence and headed out across some farmer's land, my flashlight the only light for miles and my breathing the only sound in the night. Except for the mooing which I heard after about a mile--soon followed by the sound of cows running across my path about 40 yards ahead...
Network. Speaking of impressionable innocents, a lot of them found this film a revelation. It was intended as a revelation, and by rights the book of Paddy ought to take its place beside those of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John--except that Paddy suggests a cross between Puritan windbag Jonathan Edwards and Jerry Lewis. His characters pontificate and huff and puff and the whole thing is so shrill, pretentious and heavy-handed (not to mention boring) that it won Paddy an Oscar for his writing and it's called Paddy's Network. Which is just as well, because Sidney Lumet...
Coach Joe Restic, who hates having to defend his offense as much as the Atlanta Falcons hate to use theirs, said after the game that "This just shows how important a pre-season scrimmage is. We didn't have one, except between ourselves, and you just can't gauge your talent that...