Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney's waning fortunes have locked his principal supporter, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in a deadly dilemma. Except for Rocky, Nixon's other potential challengers are fading fast. California's Governor Ronald Reagan last week admitted for the first time that he would accept a vice presidential nomination in the interests of party unity; previously, he had abruptly rejected any such suggestion. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, another dark horse, has disappeared in a very deep shadow. Neither showed promise of emerging from the penumbra except as possibilities for the second spot...
...world's rarest furs is the North Pacific sea otter, for the simple reason that except for an occasional poacher's pelt, none has been available for more than half a century. Lustrous dark brown and noted for their durability and warmth, sea-otter skins were prized by Russian czars even above sable. Chinese mandarins heaped huge rewards on Siberian seamen daring enough to cross the Bering Strait and trap sea otters in the Aleutians. But two centuries of intensive hunting brought the near extinction of the species. By 1912, when Russia, Canada and Japan joined...
...kibbutz in 1963. Paula's touch was homey-she fetched thermos jugs of coffee to her husband at the Knesset during late-night debates-but her tongue was a national weapon. "I understand," she told Charles de Gaulle, when he adamantly refused to talk to her except in French. "We both have trouble mit da English...
...critics are mixed, but the public has gone for me," says Clint, adding prudently: "I will play almost anything except Henry V and that sort of stuff...
There is no exit except to succumb to the flood of insanity. The book's real villain is the pointlessness of life, and in Paris literary circles this is a very fashionable villain indeed. Author Le Clézio, 27, frankly enjoys life himself-he is an ardent jazz and movie buff-but he is much too clever to let the fact seep into his books. If he had to choose a bedside volume, he says, it would be Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps Le Clézio should reread that work more closely. As Tweedledum remarked of Alice...