Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hawkins, 57, said that except for her parents, "I have never told anyone until now, not even my husband." Hawkins described the incident after a brief discussion with Kee MacFarlane, an expert on the sexual abuse of children, who is counseling some of the 125 children who were molested at the McMartin School, a day-care center in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Hawkins, a member of an informal group called the Senate Children's Caucus, thought her disclosure would help parents accept their children's stories of sexual abuse. Said she: "It's bothered me all this time...
...faces, eyes all downcast at the same angle of mourning, some shirtsleeves rolled up, a shirttail out the way that Bobby's sometimes was. The cousins walked up Hickory Hill bearing one of their own, David Anthony Kennedy, Robert and Ethel's fourth child, their third son. Except for infant deaths years ago, David, at 28, was the first of the new generation...
...Except for a surge in the sale of postage stamps to collectors, the islands' economy is stagnant. Shopkeepers complain that, though they sell the troops quite a few Hong Kong-made mugs, flags and ashtrays, they made far more money from the British goods they once peddled to Argentine tourists. The Standard Chartered Bank has opened an office on Ross Road, but the capital still has no barber shop, laundry or auto-repair garage...
...Christie: "Hi! Oh Gross..") Or Elvis' secret diaries, or Norma the Nuke--but one is almost always left dissatisfied. More annoying still is Breathed's attempt to pass off his lack of follow-through as creative weirdness. No nationally syndicated comic strip ever got by on weirdness alone, except Ziggy, the continuing story of a small, blob-like character that did a few things and looked bewildered...
...across the nation were given the opportunity to witness the ludicrous level of skepticism which greets a plaintiff in a rape case. The victim of the New Bedford gang rape had her "character" placed under glass and combed backwards and forwards day after day after day: meanwhile, no one, except a few lone voices, had the acuity to openly question the relevance of the woman's previous behavior to what transpired on the night of the attack. What does it matter what kind of person she was before the attack? What would it matter if she had never uttered...