Word: excepts
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...vacations except Christmas were eliminated from the school calendar to cut down on domestic travelling...
Zelleke did not disclose his daughter's futuregoals, except to say that "she would like to be amedical doctor" and return to Ethiopia...
DIED. HAROLD WILSON, 79, former British Prime Minister; in London. Wilson came to power in 1964, occupying No. 10 Downing Street for seven years, longer than any other 20th century peacetime premier except Margaret Thatcher. The silver-haired Labour Party leader was known for his pipe, raincoat and Yorkshire accent. Among his legacies: the 1967 devaluation of the pound to rescue a declining economy, the 1975 referendum that committed Britain to E.C. membership, and his recommendation of the Beatles for knighthood...
...Kings. He confessed under torture that he had broken into Ramesses II's tomb and then returned the next night to rob the tomb of Ramesses' children, which lay across the path. The absence of artifacts in the rubble above the floor suggests that the tomb remained undisturbed-except by floodwaters-for more than 2,000 years...
...last thing on their mind. The FBI discovered that when it arrested two drifters who had passed through Kingman and also Perry, Oklahoma, where McVeigh was arrested. Journalists converged on Kingman only to find that the two men spent weeks watching television, rarely emerging from their motel rooms except to buy beer and food. "I'm a drunk," explained a baffled Robert Jacks on Nightline, after the fbi finally released him. "I just pick up work -- or anything I want as I go, you know." The next week, another drifter, Steven Colbern, was arrested in Oatman, halfway between Kingman...