Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first lay day of the races. I still don't know how to sail-except on paper...
...words that the real figures never uttered. "You have touched a very live nerve," Wouk replied. "I don't know if anyone has the answer." But some try to answer: one successful scriptwriter, David Rintels, when criticized for one of his scripts, protested, "I stuck to the record, except in intimate scenes where there was no record." You don't have to be O.J. Simpson to drive through such a hole. Networks, too, get pretty fatuous when they defend their truth bending. When a committee of scientists objected to the way the networks played up and glorified pseudo...
...Your Show of Shows, have long been going it alone, she on the dinner-theater circuit, he in the movies. This week they are dusting off their old tricks to open in Las Vegas. "I've never figured out why we work so well together, except that we both laugh at exactly the same time," says Coca, sixty-fiveish. Caesar, 55, is optimistic about resurrecting old skits like the satire in double talk called "The Bicycle Thief." Says he: "Don't forget. There's a whole new generation out there. For them, it will be the first...
...Except for what nature, in an eruption of volcanic anger, has left ugly and almost immutable, there was little visible to recall Kalaupapa's dismal history as the plane circled to land on a short but well-blacktopped strip. During the drive to the health department offices and the hospital with Dr. Leslie Charles Koch, chief of Hawaii's State Leprosy Control Program, who was making one of his twice-weekly visits to the colony, there were cheery waves and "Alohas" from patients...
...their biggest fan," Forlini said. "Nobody backs up these kids in this neighborhood except me." Forlini proudly noted that the team made him an honorary member of their fraternity house. "When the players come in here Saturday night with their parents, they thank me for taking care of their sons," he said...