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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wind that blows in across the Mediterranean from the Sahara, moaning through the city's narrow streets and driving its inhabitants indoors. Few if any residents noticed as squads of armored cars raced through the streets and gun-toting officers cordoned off the city into three sections. Nor, except for the street cleaners, who were just beginning their rounds, did anyone see the law men begin rousing out of their beds and hustling off to jail the men whose names appeared on a single, shock ingly long arrest warrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sicilian Connection | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...until late morning that anyone except those actually in volved in the operation began to realize the import of what had happened. Before dawn on Sept. 29, the day of the feast of St. Michael, patron of the police, Italian authorities had conducted one of the biggest crack downs on the Mafia since Dictator Benito Mussolini's relentless suppression of that fabled criminal organization in the 1920s. Armed with copies of the warrant for the arrest of 366 Mafia members, 140 of whom were already in jail, police rounded up 53. By the time the sun rose, the jails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sicilian Connection | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard men's water polo team's performances at New England tournaments are usually pretty predictable: the squad can down any opponent except Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Water Polo | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...this weekend's Eastern Water Polo Association Tournament at Providence could have proved a welcome change, except for one thing: Instead of losing to Brown, the aquadudes lost to Navy, 18-3, and Richmond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men's Water Polo | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...order to win, you have to score more points than the opposition. So far this season Harvard, has scored six goals, with its opponents have tallied eight. They shut out their adversaries in bott wins, but were outscored 8-3 in their defeats. In each instance, with the exception of Columbia, the booter dominated the opposition in even statistic except goals...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Up-and-Down Season Continues; | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

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