Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation, taxes and the dollar-and have at least some chance to quit the office after the twelve-hour days that he considers the optimum for efficiency. He carefully guards his weekends as private times, and sometimes leaves on a quick vacation without revealing his destination to anyone except his secretary...
...Billy (16) are the Blessed, a punk band which played its first gig on Christmas Day in New York. Before their debut performance, they had practiced a total of three times, once with no microphone and a cardboard box as drums. None of the band members owns equipment, except Howie, the bassist, and Nick picked up a guitar for the first time three weeks before their debut. They maintain that they are the real punks. "These people are too old to call themselves punks. If you're going to sing about being a teenager, you might as well...
...yield on increased Communist participation prompted the Communists in turn to stiffen their own stance. Declared one party policymaker testily: "For 30 years all the governments in this country have been based on the prejudice that the Communist Party is somehow a B-league party capable of everything except governing. But the galloping crisis now demonstrates that still another government based on that prejudice would be insufficient, to say the least...
...Middle East diplomacy. And diplomacy may in part explain its passage. Because of pressure from liberal Jews in the U.S., Premier Menachem Begin promised the two Orthodox parties in his parliamentary coalition a long-sought bill on a different issue, which refused to recognize conversions to Judaism in Israel except under Orthodox auspices. By permitting the antimissionary bill, he may have hoped to shore up Orthodox support during a time when compromise may be necessary in the delicate negotiations about the future of Israeli-occupied land on the West Bank of the Jordan...
...when he was four. Renamed and unaware that he was adopted, Byrd met his real father for the first ?and last?time when he was 15. His adoptive mother, wife of a coal miner, was a strict disciplinarian. "I never remember her kissing me," Byrd recalls, "except once." Young Byrd had misbehaved?he no longer recalls the transgression?but resourcefully came up with a ploy. Says he: "I asked her to kiss me. She did, and didn't whip...