Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultural property in times of war of which both Israel and Lebanon are signatories. The destruction of Palestinian camps and other property in the aftermath of active hostilities to "relocate" (disperse) the Palestinian population violated principles of the laws of warfare which strictly bar the destruction of property except for reasons of immediate military necessity...
...royal family, meanwhile, can do little except schedule their usual tours and hope for less capricious coverage: this month the Queen and Philip in the New World; next month Charles, Diana and Baby William in Australia and New Zealand; Anne in Pakistan in May, where she will visit a refugee camp near the Afghan border. Last week it was disclosed that while Diana stayed behind and carried on with her regular schedule, Charles had just spent a week milking cows, delivering a calf and building stone fences on a tenant farm he owns in Cornwall. At the end he gave...
...course, nothing had been averted except a peaceful winter for the royals. Palace efforts to bargain with the Fleet Street scamps?a photo opportunity in exchange for privacy over the year-end holidays?dissolved in futility as the pack went hallooing off in all directions after Koo, Andrew, Charles and Diana. Koo had shown surprising staying power for a princely romance, despite speculative QUEEN BANS KOO and BUST-UP AS ANDY IS TOLD TO DROP HIS GIRL headlines in the Sun, a journal that occasionally runs its royals coverage down the side of what is called its "tits-and-bums...
...only in vast Alps of aggro (British slang for aggravation). The Princess of Wales by now had reached her choking point. She refused to play her role as royal photo model. After a week of confusion and rancor, the London tabs had little to show for their efforts except a few murmurs from Prince Charles ("Please darling, please darling"), some shots made immediately after he said, "Now I'm going to blow my nose for everyone to photograph," and huffily written stories of scary auto chases and photographers being roughed up by bodyguards...
Nothing seems to happen in these stories, except in the ordinary way of plain people. Relatives from the city come to a small town for a visit with a cousin. Two brothers, seeking the old homestead where they were born, find that it has been uprooted to make way for a wildlife preserve. In a nursing home, two elderly widows who are lifelong friends become estranged, then reconciled. Still, only the surface of these characters may be viewed as plain. In her seemingly effortless prose style, Munro has etched portraits of people living underground dramas of high intensity...