Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...slug of beer. The two men sit by each other, the beer between them. They say nothing to each other, except during the most intolerable commercials: double entendres with lissome teenage girls, men who live their lives at the edge with open-chested shirts. Granite cocks. And then the serious stuff begins, and the music trumpets forth the coming of the commentator: "Day 78," he says, announcing the score. A bunch of angry Iranian militants beat themselves with chains, cutting to the Russians rumbling toward the free world, and ah...the graphic mushroom cloud covers the picture and the words...
George E. Rupp, dean of the Div School, said this week no one has replied to the resolutions except to acknowledge receiving them...
...snow. Not anywhere in New England, except for the stuff manufactured by desperate ski-area operators, at a cost exceeding that of fine carpeting. It is a clear, cold day in January, and the early morning light glows on the hills and mountains. Beautiful, but there is a wrongness to the look and feel of things. There is too much brown in the landscape, too much detail. Snow brings blues and purples, edits out corn stubble and fallen leaves, turns a landscape into a line drawing. Its severity is what this fine January light should be explicating...
Against the Falcons, the Crimson won in all events except the 60-yd. dash, with several runners turning in their best performances to date. In the 880, Harvard's Martha Clabby and Becky Rogers ran an exciting race, with Clabby crossing the finish line just 0.5 seconds ahead of Rogers in the winning time...
...getting there, but this didn't prove anything," he said after the meet. "Except that we had one hell...