Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Longtime Cure. Although Muñoz has refused to talk about his future, friends would be astonished if he had any plans except to finish his term, then run again. No one knows better than Muñoz that Puerto Rico's worst headaches cannot be cured in four years...
...shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...Mayo doctors cautiously said that it was too early to use even the word treatment "except in an investigative sense." Some doctors thought that Compound E, even though it did not cure, might be used, like insulin for diabetes, to control the disease. Others feared that it could not be used for long without upsetting the body's whole glandular system. The argument would not be settled for a long time. Meanwhile, Mayo doctors warned that Compound E is very scarce, hard to produce, and may not be available generally until...
Witchcraft et Cetera. Except for Professor George Woodberry, who nearly 50 years ago wrote the life of Hawthorne for the original "American Men of Letters" series, Hawthorne's biographers did not do much research on the facts of his life. Instead, they have speculated and commented, with varying degrees of critical acumen and psychological acuteness, on his published works. One result is that in the past 50 years a series of well-nigh indistinguishable opuses have been written about him. Their general story is that Hawthorne was descended from one of the witchcraft judges of Salem; that his father...
...Exception. In Little Rock, Ark., a probationer wrote the federal parole board a glowing letter to prove that he is now reformed and a law-abiding citizen, noted that "I haven't been in any trouble except now I am married...