Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert A. Silverman, acting vice president for property management, said last night, "Every apartment at Peabody Terrace was exterminated except for those where there was a legitimate medical excuse...
...smile that punctuates even his gloomiest sentences continues to brighten his face and crinkle the corners of his eyes. The tone of sincerity is unchanged, even when he is greatly overstating his case, and so is the refusal to suffuse his speeches with emotion. Little real joy escapes him, except in his few moments of greatest exhilaration, but he rarely shows his anger, no matter how vexed...
...good is Harvard? How good is Princeton? It's well-nigh impossible to tell since neither team has yet faced anything remotely resembling competition (except for Princeton's pre-season meet with Alabama). But we certainly should find out this weekend...
...exactly miniscule (they are asked to hold their price hikes to a half percentage point below the average rise in 1976-77). If corporations are setting their prices at inflationary levels, the government should intervene. But the President has acknowledged that he has no tangible means of enforcing them except through the pressure of public opinion. He can't encourage a consumer boycott of violators or withhold federal contracts from them because it would be over-stepping his presidential authority. If it becomes clear that big business is flaunting his guidelines, smirking at them as they did at Gerald Ford...
...nearly that interesting, however. Most of my time was spent picking fruit to the ever-so-slow ticking of my watch. The peasant lifestyle was very different from anything found in America, and especially different from life at Harvard. Intellectualism was worthless in Moras En Valloire--nothing counted except how quickly a person could pick the peaches. It was a hard life, one in which a person spent most of his waking hours working, with few diversions and only the simplest of pleasures...