Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...from sipped cups when anyone enters. A slammed door, an auto exhaust backfiring, the passing of a military vehicle, a ringing phone, the clumsy crash of trays or pots in a café -any of these sounds turns eyes nervously, stops conversations. People do not loiter in the streets, except at bus stops and around food stores...
...overt Soviet takeover. However ill founded, however paranoid, the constant rumors have a reality of their own in shaping the war psychosis of the occupied city. The men seen in the streets with guns, the façade of power, are Afghans. The real occupiers, the Soviets, are invisible, except for their helicopters, the jet contrails, the daily barrage of Pravda-phrased media propaganda, the Cyrillic script that is replacing English, German and French signs in some store windows, and the guarded busloads of anxious-looking Russian civilians, mainly women on escorted shopping trips...
...CITY of Cambridge can legally regulate the growth of every educational institution in Cambridge--except Harvard College. The state legislature has a unique opportunity to remedy that inequity this spring when it considers a bill which would repeal Harvard's exemptions and force the University to work with a city it has too frequently ignored...
...American flag is blowing straight out from home plate, the sun shining brightly, the air clear. It is a hitter's day. Except there are no hitters on this day. It's May 23, and the major league baseball players are on strike...
Naby said that although the Freedom Fighters have spirit and a lot of support from the Afghanistan people, their equipment is totally ineffective. "All of their weapons are vintage World War I, except for what they get from captured Russians," she said...