Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill would set limits on the size of presidential libraries, offices and staff, cut the current lifetime Secret Service protection to a period of eight years after a President has left office (except in special circumstances), and drop protection for spouses, widows and minor children. Bess Truman, who rarely left the house after her husband died in 1972, was guarded continuously by agents until her death last year. Congress had to pass a $1 million supplemental appropriation after Lady Bird Johnson cruised the Greek islands with friends and twelve Secret Service agents. The measure would also stipulate that the profits...
...Except for a brief moment of notoriety in 1978, when a plague of crickets carpeted its main street, nothing much ever happens in Coalinga, Calif, (pop. 7,271). Located in the fertile San Joaquin Valley, it is a sleepy little community whose most notable claim to fame is its unusual name, a garbled version of its early designation as a railroad's "Coaling Station A." Last week Coalinga (pronounced Clinga) was jolted out of its torpor, adding a puzzling footnote to California's seismic history...
...expected Thatcher to call a general election for next month, al most a year before her five-year term runs out. Thatcher was mum on the subject, so the nation looked for omens, above all in local elections that took place last Thursday in every part of the country except London and Scotland...
They would have made good reading. Written in school exercise books, they contained such sensational Mussolini observations as "Hitler is mad! Our ideas are diametrically opposed." Before anyone bought the diaries, however, Italian police raided the Panvini home, found and seized all except four of them, and charged the two women with forgery and fraud. Rosa admitted that she had spent years perfecting her imitation of Mussolini's handwriting and used her skill to produce the diaries. Both women were given suspended sentences...
During the past four years, AMC has been developing a French accent. Except for the four-wheel-drive Eagle, the firm has retired all the passenger cars it used to make. In their place is a new line of cars imported from France, including the subcompact Le Car and the sporty Fuego. The smash hit, though, has been the appropriately named Alliance, manufactured in Kenosha...