Word: except
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...despite the economic crisis, there was virtually no sign last week that the rebellious Lithuanians were about to retreat. When President Vytautas Landsbergis addressed the group later in the day, he reaffirmed that the government was ready to carry on discussions with Moscow "at all levels, over any question" -- except the republic's declaration of independence. Moscow's use of "blockade as a means of political warfare," said Landsbergis, has turned the republic into a "disaster area, a zone of economic aggression." But if Lithuanians were going to be worse off, he declared, so were their neighbors. That...
...must be me. Everyone around me seems to be affected by it--except me, that is. How else to explain why all of a sudden, when walking through the Yard, I see dozens of couples holding hands and cooing at one another...
...performers, two men and two women, are as appealing as any cabaret performers. The men wear tuxedos, and the women evening gowns. They strut their stuff on a stage devoid of almost all props--it is bare except for the stools brought on for the occasional duets. The simplicity of it prevents the audience from being distracted from the fantastic singing and choreography...
Everyone doubted, that is, except for the players themselves...
While Princeton's ball-control offense attempted to lull the Crimson defense to sleep, the Harvard long-stickers played like they were wired on No-Doz. Except for a brief second-period lapse, Harvard's defense was ruthless in winning ground balls stuck in the thick Ohiri...