Word: excepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...private validity, Bailey is a forerunner of Kennedy's later outsider heroes: the romantic Legs Diamond roaring confidently through the '20s, gun in hand; Billy Phelan conquering Albany with bowling ball and pool cue; and Phelan's father, Francis, a tormented bum stripped of everything except his will to endure...
...adds that "it's a lot less dangerous to go out when you don't have to worry about anyone else except other cyclers...
...religious issues and the lingering doubts about his running mate's financial affairs. The House Ethics Committee announced that it would investigate whether Geraldine Ferraro, as a Congresswoman, had improperly claimed an exemption from disclosing the finances of her husband John Zaccaro. The committee had no choice politically except to proceed with a probe, once the conservative Washington Legal Foundation had formally challenged Ferraro's right to the exemption. Its investigation, which probably will not be completed before Congress adjourns Oct. 4, does not necessarily mean Ferraro did anything wrong. But it is at least a jarring reminder...
Danny Bass, a Tennessee construction worker, was 20 years old in 1978 when he married Mary Ann Garton, then 37. Bass had been put up for adoption when he was three, and except for a brief encounter in his early teens, he never saw his mother again. Then, after three months of married life, Mary Ann Bass casually informed Bass that she was his mother. As Danny's lawyer, Doug Jackson, put it, "That really set him back a notch...
After Catliff evened things up, Harvard, which has until then dominated the match everywhere except where it counted--on the scoreboard--tried to wear down the Judges' resistance as time with in hoping to win the thing outright before the end of regulation time, or at lest to win in overtime...