Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremists; getting the American hostages released would not be so easy. At the same time, the Iranians were worried about their own vulnerability; they needed arms to cement their position. McFarlane was uneasy about the idea of shipping U.S. arms to people the American government had no contact with except through Kimche. Well, Kimche replied, suppose Israel shipped the arms and asked the U.S. to replenish Israel's stocks? Said McFarlane: "David, let's not kid ourselves. The matter isn't whether or not Israel is entitled to buy weapons from the U.S. The matter is a policy judgment that...
...short, everything you always wanted from a baseball team. Except tickets...
...except for his Mouse, not a creature was stirring...
Henry Cabot Lodge '24 and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, during the '50s certainly were as much the "feel-good" administrators as our present leaders are, except they thought that the best way for government to meet that modest mission was to be a stabilizing influence. One should not forget that it was Eisenhower who first noted and tagged the "military-industrial complex," while it was Reagan, who, through the well-charted link of his Cabinet officials to Bectel, arms merchant to the Middle East, is now famous for institutionalizing that fearsome coalition...
...Mozart. In delightfully gaudy tailcoats, he plays the naughty, fidgety musical genius with a great spark of liveliness. His best moments are those showing the childlike glee of Mozart the composer, along with an endearing (and indeed pathetic) obliviousness to the envy and vengeance he arouses in Salieri. And, except for one awkward entrance, Sullivan modulates Mozart's downfall with fine control...