Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accumulation of such slights and oversights has opened Moore to more complaints from Congress than any other Administration official -except perhaps Carter himself. "Moore's done nothing to sensitize the White House to the fact that there's another branch of Government up here," grouses a top aide to the House Democratic leadership...
...Rattigan left Oxford to write plays, his father supported him during a trial period. Just as it ended, his comedy French Without Tears became a hit and ran for 1,039 performances in London. Rattigan's forte was, as he once said, "the play that unashamedly says nothing-except possibly that human beings are strange creatures, and worth putting on the stage, where they can be laughed at or cried over, as our pleasure takes...
Your presupposition of a "substantial level of personal wealth" as a requisite for entry is just as far off the mark. People can (and have) made significant collections of materials that cost them little or nothing except the wit to perceive that the collection was worth forming. Some of them were pretty esoteric, too, and some of the more esoteric ones have proved unexpectedly useful as tools of scholarship...
Although The Santa Corporation ignored everyone and kept on producing as though the holiday were not over, no one outside the company celebrated Christmas any more except on one day. And even then, they only exchanged presents--they would not take any from The Corporation...
...Terrorists: "Except in the most compelling circumstances, and then only with the approval of [Richard Salant] the president of CBS News ... there should be no live coverage of the terrorist/kidnaper since we may fall into the trap of providing an unedited platform...