Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Except for one failure with quenelles ("I got the water too hot") and another with a seven-layer torte ("the texture was wrong"), everything she set a hand to precisely matched its published image. The praise from dinner guests was heady, very heady...
Rescue crews reached the site in eight minutes and quenched the fires in 90 minutes, but none of the plane's occupants could be helped. Soon the area was eerily dark except for the colored lights and searching flashlights of the workers, whose main duty was to retrieve bodies. The victims were placed on plastic sheets in neat rows in a nearby hangar. Their bodies were to be flown this week to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where forensic experts would undertake the difficult chore of establishing firm identifications...
About 3000 students were affected, as two buildings at the Business School, all River houses except Dunster, the Faculty Club, Widener Library, Carpenter Center, the Freshman Union, and Stillman Infirmary were left without power, Kilduff said. Power was fully restored by 11:30 p.m., Kilduff said...
...people stuck in elevators, but our crew just went around systematically, and got them out," Kilduff said. Thanks to backup emergency generators, service at Stillman Infirmary remained unaffected except for a downed elevator...
...Tudor austerity to Victorian baroque, and the signs swing from the Cat and Custard Pot Inn to the Parson's Nose. But the good ones all offer similar pleasures indoors: a friendly host, welcoming bar and foamy pints that are still worth sampling. This book slakes nearly every sense except thirst...