Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesus arise bodily from the grave on the first Easter? "I would not exclude such a resurrection as within the range of possibility," says a visiting professor of New Testament studies at West Germany's Gottingen University. Nothing surprising in that, except for the fact that the scholar in question is Pinchas Lapide, an Orthodox Jew. Over the centuries Judaism has considered Jesus to be no more than a great teacher...
...kids, Geisel has become a celebrity and a millionaire without losing a sense of wonder or fantasy. His rhythmic verse rivals Lewis Carroll's, and his freestyle drawing recalls the loony sketches of Edward Lear, perhaps be cause, like those masters of nonsense, he fathered no children except those of his imagination. And what children: the Cat in the Hat, the Lorax who tries to protect the environment against predators, the Grinch who stole Christmas, Horton the elephant who nests in a tree, Yertle the Turtle, the Sneetches, the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, the Tufted Gustard, the Stuffed Ormie...
...network two years ago, may have scored an unmistakable coup in revealing the two decisions, but some journalists wondered whether it was worth Tucci's job. Said a colleague on the Supreme Court beat: "O'Brien wasted a good source for a report that did nothing except to say that he knew a decision before anyone else...
That leaves only drastic cuts in social and welfare programs to finance the tax-cuts--and here we come to an uncanny similarity between the position of Mrs. Thatcher and that of Gov. Edward J. King in Massachusetts--except that in Britain there will be no liberal state legislature to mitigate savage reductions in help for the elderly, poor, sick and disadvantaged...
...would have been even par through the ninth except that he white-knuckled three putts of less than a yard on the sixth, seventh, and eighth holes. He made his fourth straight bogey on number nine, a demanding 410-yd. par four with an elevated green flanked by traps, where his three-iron to the green caught the sand...