Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, nothing was really destroyed after all, except some illusions. Pusey, perhaps still "utterly astonished," retired two years later, two years before his expected departure, giving way to the earnestly optimistic Derek Bok. Fewer and fewer people now striding purposefully through the yard even remember the upheavals of nearly 20 years...
...husband and I are from farm families of many generations. Except for brief periods of our lives, we have always farmed and know little of any other way of life. Ernie, at 69 years of age, was off the farm during the years of 1939-1945 while he was in service during World War II with 30 months overseas. When he returned in 1945 we were promptly married, having known each other for many years. In early 1946 we bargained for a very run-down piece of land on which we spent $800 to build a two-room cottage without...
...sure why I am writing you this except that perhaps I need to reaffirm to myself that our dilemma is not the result of high and riotous living -- that we are and always have been a plain, hard-working farm family. We've had a few health problems, none of which were very expensive, three or four really bad drought years that really set us back, perhaps some bad business decisions and maybe some management weakness. Actually we were not in bad shape until the years with the terrible interest rates and the grain embargo -- it seems in retrospect that...
...Remember when we had to carry our water?" Ernie said. "And that old outhouse? We went into the hole right from the start. I've been in debt all my life except right this minute...
...best job in the world. It still is," Pusey says. "Except for the last two years, it was nothing but joy. The last two, I must say, were quite unhappy years, and that was because of all the disturbances...