Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gulf Coast. If the cranes would just stay at safe, secluded Aransas, they might increase-though not very fast, since whooping crane couples go steady for a few years before mating. But every April the flock flies off to breeding grounds near Canada's Great Slave Lake-all except one loner that, for reasons that baffle ornithologists (and possibly other whooping cranes), stayed on at Aransas last year. On the flight north and the return trip to Aransas in the fall, a few whooping cranes get shot every year by hunters. As a result, the species hovers perilously close...
...Schrunk and his deputies had raided the 8212 Club, a gambling and after-hours drinking joint financed by Jim Elkins and operated by one Clifford Bennett. Elkins testified that Bennett told him he had paid Schrunk $500, and the sheriff had gone away without causing any more trouble-except for arresting a few drunks...
McDonald looked about as good tonight as any goalie could. His performance was something like the game that Yale goalie Jerry Jones turned in against the Crimson at the Boston Garden except that McDonald was not as lucky. His reflexes were amazingly quick, fast enough to thwart Hay on two solos...
President Eisenhower has laid his monster budget on the chopping block, but Congress, unaccustomed to such an offer, wants him at least to suggest where the axe might fall. The situation is almost ludicrous, except for the dangerous possibilities it entails. Unless the President assumes full responsibility for his Frankenstein or unless Congress is willing to dispose of the thing, one of its most valuble limbs--foreign aid--may be badly mangled...
...student's discontent with the system, except for imprecision, is difficult to judge. He has no Committee on Educational Policy to express his grievances, and while the subject might possibly be treated in a Student Council report, it is probably too broad and involved for that group to handle...