Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment, the male is in Denver, trying desperately to acquire a nest for his family (all except the double-breasted dow ager). For six months he has tried to find an abandoned nest of some other bird, while his female has stayed a thousand miles behind in the old nest...
Fajon, who lines up with, old Andre Marty and young Laurent ("Moscow's Eye") Casanova in opposition to Thorez, told the latter off, politely, at Gentilly. Making the first policy speech of the Central Committee meeting, Fajon said: "There is no such thing as national independence except when efforts toward that end repose on the might of the Soviet Union . . . Maurice Thorez was right when he said, months ago, that our rallying call should be national independence. But we must repeat that one of the major conditions of this independence is ... the cohesion of international Communist parties...
Explosions of supernovae are the most spectacular phenomena in the universe, and among the most mysterious. Fortunately for everybody except impatient astronomers, they do not seem to occur very often. Each star system, such as N.G.C. 6964 and the earth's own Milky Way galaxy, is thought to average one such catastrophe in about 600 years. The brightest local outburst, thought to be a supernova, was Tycho's Star, which exploded in 1572 and was bright enough to be seen in daytime...
...nearly 20 years, after leaving St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School at 16, he worked as a bookkeeper. Except for a few oblique words written-but never published-as preface to a very early fantasy of his, there are few references in his writings to his business life...
...lovers and the child make each other quite a lot of needless trouble before they get their differences settled. Except for a keenly bracing ten minutes of pursuit and rescue in troubled waters, the picture is about as exciting as a plate of boiled haddock. Yet the story's very quietness is rather pleasant. All the outdoor shots were made in Maine, and are much better than average to look at; but for some strange reason the crisp camera work is steeped in sepia so rich that the whole world looks like strong tea. There is competent character acting...