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Dower Slaves When I was in fifth grade, our class was given a homework assignment to write down as many homonyms as we could each think of, and a week later, our teacher combined our efforts on the blackboard. As a class, we produced over one-hundred different homonyms. The list was impressive, containing words (some with obvious parental help) such as “jeans” and “genes.” One pair of homonyms none of us had come up with was “dour” and “dower." We’re all familiar with the term “dowry,” which means, “a transfer of property or money, by parents to their daughter, at the time of the dau
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I've been tracking our own Jon Karl's work for nearly twenty years, and I believe this was the finest moment of his formidable career - it was the right speech at the right time. "Freedom of the Press" by Jonathan Karl on abcnews.go.com
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Sep 24, 2019 - “Speaker Pelosi Calls for an Impeachment Inquiry. What Happens Next?” by Justin Fishel on abcnews.go.com
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As ugly as things have gotten, they just don't make 'em like this anymore!
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There's something fundamentally wrong, and yes, "Unamerican" about this: "Venting about Press, Trump Has Repeatedly Sought To Ban Reporters over Questions" by Phillip Rucker, Josh Dawesy, and Ashley Parker on washpost.com
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