Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Flames melted the van's roof and rose to the height of second story windows in Cabot House, though no damage occurred outside the vehicle...
...would rekindle racial tensions that have cooled in recent weeks. The bad news for Barry is that Stephens indicated he would recommend a prison term, unusual for a first misdemeanor, when the mayor is sentenced next month on the single count of cocaine possession for which he was convicted. Though he is running for the city council, his chances seemed to dwindle after the Democratic mayoral- primary victory of Sharon Pratt Dixon, who campaigned on a promise to end the Barry legacy. That would be good news for Washington...
...cheese, real Swiss cheese, on whole wheat. A side order of steamed broccoli. And a Coke." In his soft tenor voice, he discusses nutrition: "Do you like it when your sandwich is burned like that? That's not supposed to be good for you. But it sure tastes good, though." He chats with the waiter: "Does this bread get thrown away? It could go to the homeless. They'd only have a little-bit-later lunch...
This courtly man doesn't stay depressed for long, though. He has seen too much. Life, to him, is an endless search, one long lesson. He is proof of the notion that every artist is a scientist, obsessed with discovering how things and people work. His eyes go electric as he skims the subjects of his forthcoming photography book. "I've got a real lot of beautiful industrial landscapes. And I'm real interested in dental hygiene, so I'm going to have a chapter on that. Maybe something on fictitious archaeology: I'd like to bury some things, then...
...deftly adding education costs to his accounting of society's loss to blacks -- though these costs cover all children, rich or poor, white or black, who attend public schools -- Duke is expressing a resentment of the poor for daring to exist. During his more forthright racist days, he had eugenic solutions for the problem: tax deterrents to breeding by the lower class matched by incentives for the genetically superior. He has softened that to drug testing and mandatory instruction in contraception for all welfare recipients...