Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Republican Keynoter Walter Judd: "We ought to dispense with the idea of having people in the galleries. Instead, we should put everyone except the delegates outside and let them watch through television. I wouldn't even let the press and television men wander up the aisles to interview everybody right in the middle of the proceedings. With all these people in there, the whole thing has just gotten too cumbersome...
Korea: The turncoats were steadfast. They refused to give anything except their name, rank and the exact position of their unit...
...Francisco's lowercase, lower-depths hungry i (for intellectual). It was Sue's suggestion: "If they don't understand you," she said, "they'll label it whimsy." Onstage, Sahl began talking about the McCarthy jacket, explained that it was like the Eisenhower jacket except that it had "an extra flap to go over the mouth," added that "Senator McCarthy does not question what you say so much as he questions your right to say it." No one even smiled. Then up from the bar came a muscular laugh from Enrico Banducci, the club's proprietor...
...Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. Within three days, he was practicing starts and turns. On the sixth day, Farrell showed up at the trials with his five-inch incision protected by a wide roll of tape that extended halfway around his back. "It doesn't hurt much except for hitting the water," said Farrell. Corrected Kiphuth: "It hurts like hell...
...might have quit except we burned our bridges behind us when we pulled most of our pitons," said Rearick. "We could never have gotten back down to Broadway." Then he made a terse entry in the logbook at the summit of Longs Peak: "First ascent of the Diamond...