Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caliphs lost touch with their people, becoming decorative mollusks. Finally the Arabs lost even their economic importance to the world; by sailing around Africa to India in 1498, the Portuguese outflanked Arab ports and customs stations. After seizing Egypt in 1517, the Ottoman Turks ossified Arab culture, banning Arabic except in courts and mosques, halting poetry, science and education-just as the European Renaissance was in full bloom...
...fear of blackmail rather than from the threat of criminal indictment. The law will still prohibit solicitation, and it increases penalties for acts against minors. It prohibits homosexual brothels and pimping. The law brings Britain in line with most of Western Europe, where restrictions have been eased everywhere except in West Germany. In the U.S., only Illinois has a comparably liberal code...
Accustomed as she is to having her picture taken, these photos nevertheless "had no aim except that of arousing the morbid curiosity of the public," complained Brigitte Bardot, 32, in a suit co-filed with Husband Giinter Sachs, 34, against Playmen, a grotesque new Italian caricature of Playboy. The magazine garnished its second issue with a five-picture layout of a topless BB, looking mighty like a senior citizen, sunbathing in Rome with her totally in-the-skin husband, unaware that a paparazzo had, in Brigitte's words, "cut a hole in the dense vegetation surrounding the swimming pool...
...convicted in 1964 of taking part in The Great Train Robbery and was sentenced to 30 years. So no one gave it a second thought when an article in a Sunday newspaper called The People mentioned that Goody had been involved in the robbery. No one, that is, except Goody. He claimed that he had been libeled...
...down the steps of the Harvard stadium, run at the rate of 50 times per rower per day. "Most of the things around here are boring as hell," grunted Stroke Ian Gardiner last week, as he hefted a 100-lb. weight over his head for the 19th time. "Except for the winning, of course...