Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From these labs the tendrils of the traffic have reached into Nicaragua and Paraguay, while continuing to flourish in Mexico and the Caribbean. The cocaine business has, in fact, drawn its net around every country in South America except the tightly policed dictatorship of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet. "The drug trade is like a water balloon," says one frustrated U.S. official in Colombia. "You step on it in one place, and it squeezes out the side of your foot...
...autobiography that Fevvers tells to the skeptical Walser is, except for the business about the wings, standard 19th century melodrama. It begins with the heroine abandoned in a basket on the steps of a London brothel. A Cockney prostitute, noticing the downy lumps on the infant's shoulders, accidentally gives the foundling a surname: "Looks like the little thing's going to sprout Fevvers." Years pass, and the child earns her innocent keep about the house by posing as Cupid in the drawing room, while commercial sex flourishes around her. Then comes puberty and the improbable onset of pinions. With...
...would anybody except the past and present members of the Quincy JCR and their friends. Of course--watch cliffhangers' like Brown vs. Columbia? "Game of the Week" producer Greg Harney claimed audiences were about the same for Ivy football as for whatever the games replaced, but WQED program director Sam Silverman conceded that the show was "not a rating, success." WNFE President Jay Iselin '56 reported that his viewership was from 100,000 to 200,000 in the Greater New York area, the same for his how to shows on gardening and home repair...
...except for a five-minute stretch late in the first half, the visitors almost played them even...
...National Council of Churches already in place, Manhattan seemed the ideal base for forward-looking church leaders. Now, for various reasons, four major denominations are simultaneously pondering whether to pull up stakes. The underlying trouble is not New York's reputation as Sin City--except insofar as liberalism is counted a sin. Churchgoers on Main Street are increasingly concerned that the left-of-center New York bureaucracies are out of step with heartland beliefs...