Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aerial ladder for its fire department. Independence, Mo., will not get a board to review the actions of its police department, and the citizens of Miami have gone on record as approving the sale of beer in the Orange Bowl. Small beer, perhaps, to everyone except imbibers in Miami, but some more momentous decisions were also made last week. The citizens of Pittsburgh voted 2 to 1 to relax pollution-control laws, hoping to open up new jobs in the beleaguered steel industry. And more than 3 million voters-a record number-came out in Ohio to repeal...
...nightly political lecture are punished with death. Every month about 250 villagers die from starvation, but to eat a chicken or suggest killing a cow is treason. Says Soeung Meayeat, 28, who escaped six months ago: "There is nothing to do when parents die and children are taken away except wait for death so you can see them again...
Cooper emphasized the importance of the junior squad's strong showing because the two teams juggle places when necessary. "These new kids are total novices except for Drankowski, and they did a great job over equally or more experienced fencers," Cooper said...
Coach Bill McCurdy, disconsolate after still one more player injury in the Greater Boston Championships, put the team's predicament more colorfully. "It's another example of the workings of Rafto's law, which is about the same as Murphy's Law except it says if anything can go wrong, it will go worse...
Next season, nearly every important runner on the team except Rafto will return, with the addition of Moulton, Fitzsimmons, and freshman John Murphy, yet another injured party, who recovered in time to run to a smoking 4:07.9 finish in Thursday night's intrasquad heats...