Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Except for the presence of a visitor, it was just another dry run for doomsday. A captain and a first lieutenant of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces simultaneously turned two keys that would, in wartime, send hurtling toward the U.S. an SS-19 ballistic missile with six independently targeted thermonuclear warheads. Watching from a corner of the cramped underground control center was a tall, droll Yankee naval officer who describes himself as a "country boy from Oklahoma": Admiral William J. Crowe, 64, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American military official ever to visit...
...hard to avoid wondering why LL doesn't sing about different subjects on his newest album. Sure, he brags like no other rapper, but that's all he does. Except for "Fast Peg" and "Change Your Ways," Cool J raps about himself. That formula is starting to wear after only three albums...
...bristles at talk of promises lost. "I reject all of that because the things I was fighting for when I came into Washington were justice, equality, fairness, for blacks to get into certain positions of responsibility, to make decisions about people's lives. What's the power here, except the power to help...
...elder statesman of boxing, a figure of charm and standing. As a matter of fact, when Robinson made a Spanish omelet out of LaMotta in 1951, the New York Herald Tribune called it "the first believable knockout of ((Jake's)) life." LaMotta swears he never took a dive except the one against Blackjack Billy Fox, and that was so long...
...spending most of his time away from home and hanging out with a group of friends that he called his "homeboys." Says Edwards: "I never really had anyone to talk to. My father was gone. I had no one to turn to when I was in trouble, except my homeboys. They became my family...