Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like a pine tree that had fallen...
...COULD have been New York, except for the garden hose. They don't have gardens in New York, and carbon monoxide is everywhere. It could have been any big city, any middle city, this drying up of hope and wetting down of sorrow. It happens all the time, anonymously, in cities...
Despite the availability of all that outside help, military experts believe Nkomo's 17,000-man army is deteriorating; moreover, the long-feuding Mugabe and Nkomo groups have not yet settled on a common military strategy. That could give the Rhodesian army an important advantage, except that its morale and fighting power also seem to be declining as experienced white officers continue to leave. Thus, conclude some observers, it is not unlikely that two poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly disciplined armies may wind up slogging away at each other for years to come...
Next day the man goes to his office, hangs up his coat and sits at a typewriter. Time passes. No typing occurs. The man's natural optimism wilts. He is vacant of ideas, except for one that grows progressively more attractive: this, finally, is the day for throwing himself out of the office window...
True, Jimmy Carter has delivered a number of soliloquies on the "moral equivalent of war," but the attributes of war remain absent. The problem seems abstract to Americans, except when gas prices rise and stations close...