Word: excepts
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...fast ball and there are too many called strike threes. In golf it's the nerves, causing a 3-ft. putt to look like three miles of bad road. In sports from archery to yachting, age steals away the skills, leaving nothing behind for the graying champion to embrace. Except heart...
...good films, including From Here to Eternity, in which she played a prostitute (and won an Oscar). In 1958, however, she became Everywife in her own TV series, the epitome of suburban domesticity. So firmly did she imprint that character that she was forever unable to convincingly play anyone except the cheerful wife and mother who left no spots on the glasses or her children's psyches. By the time Reed tried to inhabit the skin of Miss Ellie in Dallas, it was impossible to believe that she could have brought forth a lout like J.R. She had become...
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...case against O.J. looks strong -- except for the weaknesses...
...year, biologists said the bird could be dropped from the endangered-species list. Last week, in a ceremony timed to resonate with the 4th of July holiday, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Mollie Beattie formally proposed that the eagle's status be changed from "endangered" to "threatened" everywhere except in one region of the desert Southwest. At a marshy spot in Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Beattie marked the long-anticipated occasion by releasing a female bald eagle, fittingly named Hope, who had been nursed in captivity after suffering a broken wing. Following a 90-day public-comment...