Word: excepts
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Other students, left incommunicado with their parents except for borrowed lines and pay phones, told of waiting days for common-room lines-not the additional bedroom lines-to be turned on. Several students, after failing to get in touch with friends, realized that the Harvard directory had not been given their correct phone numbers...
...photographer's teeth had cut the sheath of a tendon, and the doctor told me there were more dangerous bacteria in the mouth of a human than in almost any other animal except a monkey. This didn't surprise me; I had assumed that the mouth of a paparazzo was a cesspool of bacteria...
...live in a house with two other people where the water runs only three ) times a day." Yale graduate Kathleen Charlton, 29, has for the past year been managing director of Ashta International Inc., a privately owned consulting firm in Hanoi; she says she enjoys her life there except for the lack of "the usual stuff: I miss good movies, I miss good Mexican food, I miss bagels...
...explode it did, with such hellish force as to eliminate almost immediately all hope that any of the 132 people aboard -- five crew, 127 passengers -- could have lived. Except for the tail, USAir 427 shattered into so many pieces that the twisted and burned shards of metal were unrecognizable as airplane wreckage...
...Nero, who disputes the charges against her, said Wednesday she was told not to drive except in emergency situations. Such a situation arose, Nero said, when she realized her program for children ages 7 to 13 was without first-aid kits for a planned sleepover...