Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill' makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood, as it is perhaps also in ours." Further, Freud held that man possesses a death instinct which, since it cannot be satisfied except in suicide, is instead turned outward as aggression against others. Dr. Fredric Wertham, noted crusader against violence, disagrees sharply and argues that violence is learned behavior, not a product of nature but of society: "The violent man is not the natural but the socially alienated...
...series of decrees, he tightened credit, cut government spending 30%, canceled ruinous import subsidies, and brought the rate of inflation down to 41% by last year. To clean out Communists and political corruption, he stripped almost 800 Brazilians of their political rights and abolished all political parties except for a catchall government party and a token opposition. To guard against any return to the old ways, he also wrote a new constitution that provided for indirect presidential elections by Congress...
...nearly 3,000,000 works that includes a whole room of Rembrandts, and the world's finest assemblage of Gauguins, Matisses and early Picassos. Two other great sights: the Peter and Paul Fortress housing the tombs of all the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Alexander III (except Peter II), and the baroque gardens of Petrodvorets, the old Summer Palace, 40 minutes outside town on the Gulf of Finland. A delightful summertime consequence of Leningrad's northern location is the "white nights"-it stays light until around midnight and never gets totally dark. Another consequence: summer evenings...
...little reason for a boom "from a supply and demand standpoint," since Government sales should cover the difference between the 40 million oz. mined and the 160 million oz. that will be used by industry this year. But the bulls, pointing out that Government stocks will be exhausted (except for a strategic reserve) next year though demand will continue to rise, look for silver to go as high as $3 per oz. The bears, eying such untapped supplies as the two billion oz. contained in U.S. coins and some five billion oz. stashed in trinkets and religious objects in India...
...second car is then auctioned off to another consorciado, with the proceeds from his highest cash bid going into the group pool. He, too, continues making the regular monthly payments, except that these are reduced slightly to make up for the additional cash that he has had to pay out in the auction...