Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewed with alarm the 17-year-old cockney dowsing rod, opined that "practically everything is wrong with her-she has a humpback, exaggerated curvature of the spine and a hanging abdomen," all leading inevitably to "pains in the loins and the hips." Nothing would help old Twig, he added, except maybe swimming or "crawling around on all fours for ten minutes each morning and evening." Whereupon Mrs. Nell Hornby, Twiggy's mother, spoke up: "What a load of rubbish. You'll not find any girl as healthy as my daughter...
Michigan's problem arose after the U.S. Congress approved Daylight Saving Time for all states except those that specifically asked to be exempted. Michigan's legislature duly voted for exemption, largely because the state lies on the far western rim of the Eastern Time Zone, making for 10 p.m. sunsets in some western towns under Daylight Saving. Residents of more easterly Detroit, however, were loath to lose the extra hour of leisure-time illumination that Daylight Saving gave them. To get the hour back again, they resorted to the referendum...
...which is now being drastically revised, as "archaic" and "reeking of drawbridges and moats." Dismissing the intellectual achievements of Jesuits John Courtney Murray and Karl Rahner, Kavanaugh insists that "Catholic theology died somewhere between Thomas and Tarzan." He scarcely mentions the reforming legislation of the Second Vatican Council, except in pointed skepticism. "Are we persons now that the bishops have voted to share the medieval powers of our Pope?" he asks. "Nothing has really changed. We will continue to preserve the system that has paralyzed...
...this year, 2,000,000 will. Italian companies also turned out 1,600,000 of 4,000,000 stoves last year, 1.500,000 of 3,900,000 TV sets and a rapidly rising share of home freezers, newest Common Market consumer attraction. In 1950, Italy trailed every European nation except Spain and Portugal in appliance output; last year it was third in the world, after the U.S. and Japan. "Domestic appliances," notes the Milan newspaper, 24 Ore, "are to Italy what watches are to Switzerland...
...Telephone Association pavilion shows him a 360° screen, then surrounds him with the sea, puts him in the middle of a hockey game, the Mounties on parade, Montreal's skyline, and a hundred other spectacular Canadian sights. The exhibit's faults are derived from its virtues. Except for the African chameleon, there are few living creatures who can see in back of their heads; in theory, a film in the round is a dazzling Disney process, but at any given moment, 180° of it are wasted...