Word: excepts
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There was no mention of abolitionism, except to say that "efforts to free the slaves began in the South; ironically, Gen. U.S. Grant was a slave owner while Gen. Robert E. Lee freed his slaves." The museum even implied that President Lincoln worded the Emancipation Proclamation so that his in-laws in Kentucky could legally keep their slaves...
...true that most adults think they don't have much to learn from children and don't really value their opinions, except on topics like, say, ice cream," says David Elkind, professor of child development at Tufts University and author of The Hurried Child (1981). "Kids do have interesting ideas, if you're willing to listen. And I think sometimes adults are not civil enough with kids, saying please, thank you, apologizing for breaking promises...
...Hingis submarined a serve to Steffi Graf in the French Open has a woman been so universally excoriated for underhanded conduct. And all Maynard did was sell a bunch of mash notes she had saved from a boyfriend of 27 years ago to raise college tuition for her children. Except that the boyfriend happened to be J.D. Salinger--the eremite of Cornish...
...revealed their handiwork. Except for a few shuttered apartment blocks and the main square around the Hotel Metohija, the city lay in silent ruin. Whole neighborhoods had been reduced to knee-deep rubble. Not a soul walked the streets. In Kapasnica, the section known as Little Albania, house after house, down every street in every direction, was a vacant husk, broken-walled and covered in soot. The only sound was the screech of jackdaws, the distant scurrying of a mangy dog and the drip, drip, drip of broken water pipes...
...shape in their living room. Finally, I just had to ask what was going on. It turned out that their son John, a seventh-grader, was putting together a skit with a group of other kids. Their short play was loosely based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, except that it was set inside a gigantic mouth, and the main characters were teeth. The theme involved not a tumultuous relationship but the invention of the electric toothbrush. Yet part of the dialogue was lifted verbatim from the Shakespearean original...