Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just a woman in funny clothes and a jock strap. They don't think the same, except about things like higher math. But neither are they an alien or inferior form of life. From the point of view of the novelist, this discovery has wide-ranging implications....But first, a small digression, partly to demonstrate that when people ask you whether you hate men, the proper reply is "Which ones?"--because, of course, the other big revelation of the evening is that not all men are the same. Some of them have beards. Apart from that, I have never been...
...Cambridge City Council last night approved the measure, which applies to all restaurants with more than 25 seats, except for bars where the primary sales are alcoholic beverages...
...minister with six generations of Lutheran clerics in his family, supported the "plow1 shares" movement, but he has reservations about the church's role. Says he: "I would not want to be pastor in a church as politically powerful as Poland's. Our church must remain powerless. Except when terror reigns...
...number of counts: for having a tin ear for dialogue, for tailoring plots and characters to the design of abstract concepts, for using language as a form of showing off: "I will spare everybody a detailed discussion of all the overwriting that occurs in these stories, except to mention how distressed I am at the number of tendrils that keep showing up. I still don't even know for sure what a tendril...
...States did not sign, perhaps as a by-product of the same isolationism that prompted the Senate not to ratify' entry into the League of Nations, but all other major powers were signatories to the treaty World War II saw no large scale use of these types of weapons except in the horrors of the concentration camps...