Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ford will take you any place-except into society...
...quarter of London's arty Chelsea district) on the ground of adultery with the earl's former accountant. "If this pace keeps up," said one Londoner, "there will soon be no one on the Queen's lawn at Ascot [to which divorced persons are never invited] except Prince Philip and the Queen herself...
...Bite. INRA's charter, Latin America's most drastic land-reform law, authorizes the expropriation, for 20-year 4½% Peso bonds, of all land holdings greater than 995 acres, except sugar, rice or cattle farms, which may be as big as 3,316 acres. In practice, INRA agents, who outrank even rebel army officers, have seized whatever farms they pleased regardless of size, and no bonds for payment of the farms have yet been printed...
Mayday. In Lausanne, Switzerland, alarmed by the number of attacks on taxi drivers, police considered a special pedal for cabs that, when pressed, locks all the doors except the driver's, stops the motor, releases a capsule of suffocating gas, blows the horn, starts a flashing light...