Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Probably the thrill would have been bigger if I could actually feel anything except pain. Nonethless, it was good pain...
Republicans began publicly squirming about Reagan's fiscal 1986 budget as soon as he proposed it in February. The plan ripped into every domestic spending program (except Social Security), but it provided the Pentagon with a spending increase of nearly 6% over inflation. Unless deep cuts could be made, annual deficits projected at well above $200 billion loomed over the rest of Reagan's term. The Senate Budget Committee, controlled by the Republicans, responded with a plan that included less drastic domestic cuts offset by , savings from holding the military to a "zero growth rate...
...attacking with bugs, molds, rot, cankers, neighboring dogs, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, drought, torrential rains, 'black' frosts, snow heaves, winter- kill. And I cannot think that the satisfaction derived is in the results, however beautiful or tasty . . . The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable...
...dark night in February 1968, Johnson summed up his war that failed. "We're not going to surrender," he said grimly. Just a month later, he decided he had had enough and announced his decision not to seek re-election. So after all, it was the Alamo. Except in the end, Lyndon Johnson's war was taken away from...
...true point of the Core should be that everybody is reading the same books," Riesman says. "There is little that is common today among students except sports, sex, and food...