Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Except for the last sentence, Terry Sullivan, 30, could have been writing home about graduate school. Instead, his words appeared in a recent issue of Win, a magazine devoted to the Nonviolent Movement against the Viet Nam war. Sullivan's observations were intended to reassure fledgling draft resisters, to tell them that the ordeal of prison is not as terrifying as it seems. A draft resister who spent ten months at Danbury Correctional Institution in Connecticut, Sullivan was released a year ago. He recommends prison as "a great experience-you'll love...
Worse, the antigens come in many different shapes and compositions even among individuals of the same species. Result: the chance that any two people (except identical twins) will have the same "antigenic constitution" is virtually nil. Transplanters have tried to get around that by matching donor organs with recipients whose antigen patterns seem fairly similar, but these resemblances are not close enough to exclude the rejection mechanism...
...traditional Swazi society," Swaziland's King Sobhuza II once observed, "a latecomer often gets the best cut of meat." As Britain's last colonial claim on the African continent except for breakaway Rhodesia, Sobhuza's tiny (pop. 390,000), verdant land has waited patiently for its cut of independence. Last week a smiling King Sobhuza, surrounded by some 100 of his wives and dressed in a ceremonial headdress of lourie-bird feathers, a girdle of lion and leopard skins and a cloak made of oxtails, had his patience rewarded. British Commonwealth Secretary George Thompson handed Sobhuza...
...lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets is the stabilizing unity of the Swazi tribe, to which all the new country's citizens belong except for some 10,000 white residents...
...private business," he said, "I'd go broke in a week. This just isn't any way to run a railroad. We have moved the aide's responsibilities forward without giving him comparable recognition." The main problem, as Bay saw it, was the huge staff turnover. Except for physicians, one-third of Topeka State's employees have been there for less than a year, and one-fourth for less than six months! The reason for the turnover is simple: poor pay with no hope of betterment...