Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Crimson hurdler Lance Miller, who's been out with an early season injury, was back in the blocks for the 440 intermediate hurdles with a gleaming bald head, shaved except for two small Hs above his ears in honor of the meet. Having not trained for several weeks, Miller came in a respectable fourth, but was somewhat skeptical about the effects of his shave: "I don't think it helped all that much," said Miller...
...should the Soviets worry about what the Europeans are going to do, given the way the Europeans have behaved? Why should the Soviets try to make some deal [on Afghanistan], when the Europeans-except for the British -have done absolutely nothing to cause the Soviets any concern...
Cross said another reason for the failure of attempts at economic development was simply that "most Indians still have little knowledge of the capitalist or entrepreneurial system, except that they have been exploited...
...doesn't appear, except at the finish line," he said...
...comedy of manners. The bride and groom are hardly thrilled at the prospect of this marriage made in heaven. They approach the pavilion magically erected for their nuptials with mutual dislike. She thinks he is a barbarian, he finds her too snobbish and ethereal. He has never faced women except as the conquering general, accepting the spoils of victory: "On their campaigns, when the army reached new territory, into his tent would be thrust some girl, or she was thrown at his feet...