Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boiled potatoes. Mrs. Golda Meir has more panache-at least for those who appreciate Jewish mothers -than her predecessor, Levi Eshkol, but she can hardly match that prophet-politician David Ben-Gurion. Revolution has unseated the egomaniacal Nkrumah of Ghana and Sukarno of Indonesia -no loss to the world, except in drama. Egypt's Nasser and Cuba's Castro still have the messianic leader's power to move his people, although familiarity and failure are beginning to breed contempt. Perhaps the national leader who has the greatest claim to genuine charisma is China...
...Except in art and conversation, blandness is not a mortal sin; and even in politics, charisma is not always a virtue. Nkrumah and Sukarno stirred the blood of their countrymen, but they very nearly ruined their countries. Two of the most persuasive leaders of the 20th century were also two of its greatest monsters-Hitler and Mussolini. Particularly in advanced nations, the leader who governs by emotion and style is apt to be regarded as a dangerous indulgence, one that people with stable institutions should not hanker...
There were, however, some political objections to the Moratorium. "Basically, I don't agree with what the Moratorium's protesting," Neil Dale '72 said. "I don't see how anyone could take my participation except as support of total withdrawal. I don't disagree with Nixon that firmly...
...Coop card is lost or stolen, $100 worth of charges-the current personal liability limit under Massachusetts statutes-could be run up within a very short space of time. The answer of course, is that the same might be said of the old Coop card Except that it is immensely easier to amass fraudulent charges in several stores than in one, particularly since credit card thieves, according to police evidence, know that they must do their charging as soon as possible after receiving the card...
...second and third periods were uneventful except for the outstanding play of Meyers in the net. Meyers who moves very well despite a painful knee injury blocked several shots that would have been goals if anybody with lesser range had been in the nets...