Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson was flattened by the Tiger offense last week, and its attack never got moving consistently. Except for an injury to guard John Cassis, however. Harvard came out of the game in fairly good physical condition. It was its psychological condition that took a massive beating...
...pressure of the past seven months? "I haven't noticed any marked difference with him in the last year," replied the same junior faculty member. "He has been able to respond warmly and kindly to human beings who relate to him that way. He's not provocative in general except when provoked. Even under severe pressure his ability to retain emotional control is fantastic...
NASA asked Purcell and other leading scientists in 1967 to decide what specifications the camera should meet. Purcell said he became involved in the camera program because he was "concerned at the absence from the Apollo program of any plans for scientific photography of the lunar surface except from a considerable distance...
...call great cities "imperial cities." London and Paris are still great cities, but they lost some of their luster when world politics shifted to Washington, Moscow and Peking-all of which lack at least one ingredient of greatness. Washington may be the political center of the nation, but, except for its superb galleries, cultural life there is as provincial as that of Des Moines or Butte, Mont. Both Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro have an effervescent vitality that suggests the potential of great cities. They may yet fulfill that potential as Mexico and Brazil grow in wealth and influence...
...remarkable book, Soul of Wood, Jakov Lind fixed the grayed and monstrous mindscape of wartime Germany more vividly than any other writer except Günter Grass. It is surprising, therefore, to realize that Lind, who was born in Vienna and lived out the war in Holland and Germany, is not a German author at all and now does not even write in German, his first language. He is, in fact, a 42-year-old Londoner (by adoption) who writes in English. His past still troubles him so that he refuses, for instance, to read the writing of most Germans...