Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaves physical structures unharmed, "a radiation enhancement weapon." The Defense Department did not send a representative to accept the award, but it did designate Army Colonel Jack Munsey as "doublespeak person" to respond to numerous inquiries. Said he: "The particular term accurately describes that weapon. What can I say except I'm sorry they don't like it? And I'm not sure I'm even that sorry...
...dogs surging around us as we move. Dogs are good, he tells us; they are the most loyal creatures in the world. He has had 9 children by two marriages; the oldest ones are around 50 and the youngest, whose room my brother and I share, is 18. None, except the two grandchildren, have come home for Thanksgiving, although they phone often and return on weekends regularly. Each time one child left the house, he replaced it with a dog or two. He doesn't mind his granddaughter coming home for the holiday, he tells us, but he doesn...
This will be the first time Harvard had given formal recognition to teachers except when they are retiring, although various departments have given awards in the past, Grabar said...
Golda's cabinet, generals, personal secretary, children, everybody except her artistically minded husband Morris (Gerald Hiken), seem to have been carted to the stage direct from Mme. Tussaud's. Unlike Mme. Tussaud's waxwork historical figures, these characters do have lines to say, but the play might move a little faster if they were mute...
That incident led to second thoughts, and special-event status was conferred on the movie, permitting city prisoners (virtually all 7,300 inmates as it turned out) to stay out late if they wished to see the last two episodes-except the protesters, who were given nine days of confinement without privileges, an offer they couldn't refuse...