Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admission policy eliminating all forms of preference except those of academic potential and skill, with allowances made for inadequate education...
Bill Washauer and Steve Devereux, both improving rapidly, had the least difficulty. They completely shut out their opponents except for one game that Washauer's opponent managed...
...they are so constantly prey to the threat of being killed. They would go mad with fear and despair if they could remember the past. Men seldom realize it, Kurt Vonnegut suggests in his latest novel, but they have more in common with rabbits than they like to think. Except that men forget on purpose, and are a prey to one another...
Today writing and lecturing are his only work. Breakfast of Champions, his next book, should appear this year. With characteristic irony it deals with the plight of robots who take over the Middle West (except for one flesh-and-blood Pontiac dealer), but find themselves bugged by problems of free will...
...expected that I would finally see these five people totally relaxed. I was wrong. As we started to pack up the lights in the big trunks, gather the camera and recording equipment together, and clean up the place, a pall fell over the cabin. No one spoke, except to ask Eric questions about the storage of the apparatus. There was no sense of relief in the air--even though all the interior shooting, at least, had been completed...