He never saw clearly enough to find Nessie except on that one day in 1972, when he had been too moved and excited to work the Super-8 camera that shook in his hand.

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There's no particular significance to that day, except that it's the anniversary of his White House handshake with Yitzhak Rabin.

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"We faced a team today that probably, if we had faced any other team in America, we might have been better off, except for Michigan State, " Keady said that day.

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Except that just about the whole world saw stock market falls that day.

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The roads were empty except for a black Mercedes that would whiz by once or twice a day and an equally infrequent Bedouin on a camel.

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Do you believe that people who don't go to church except perhaps on Christmas Day, are Christians?

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His day could have been much worse except for a tee shot that caromed off a tree and into the fairway on the second hole, and a big hook on the third that hit the tire of a golf cart and stayed in play.

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From day one, we did just that, never looking back except to learn from our miscues.

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The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet.

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But what if a Mexican television show that began airing in the early 1970s pulled in the same kind of ratings, except it did it every day?

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