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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside the courthouse, Walsh declined to comment on the judge's decision except to say that "everyone realizes that four trials are more burdensome than one but the judge feels that that's a necessary requirement to protect the constitutional rights of all four defendants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Sets Separate Iran-Contra Trials | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...some friends once decided to walk back and forth across the cross-walk on Massachusetts Avenue when the streelight said 'walk,' and to sit in the street when it said 'don't walk.' Laage and a friend made each other wear signs at all times for a week except when sleeping or in the shower, in the interest of truth and suffering. Laage's read "I am a pimply-faced boy," while his friend's read "I am a windbag at both ends...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: A Harvard Reunion, Co-Op Style | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...running unopposed for his seat There isn't a Texan willing to challenge him. Except for George Bush. A some-time Texan whose nativity has been under question before...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Lone Star Loser | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...serious attention reserved more recently for The Fate of the Earth and The Closing of the American Mind. This is a sharp reminder of how far we've veered in the other direction, to the point where the Dionysian impulse is considered an illegitimate subject for social policy, except for the question of how far we dare to go in smothering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Glass Houses and Getting Stoned | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Instead, Vera's life is often lonely and sometimes cruel. Classmates sense that she is different. At a party last year, the boys decided they would ask every girl to dance -- except Vera. The parents of Vera's best friend no longer allow their daughter to spend the night at the Ziemans' apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lonely World of a Refusenik | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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