Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that DiCara is young or Italian or goes to Harvard should be labeled as "strengths" rather than whatever positions on issues he might take (listed later almost as an afterthought) suggests Epps as little more than a class snob commenting on the fun and games of lumpen politics...
...which he recently appended a contemporary afterthought...
Moreover, in the strike speeches around the country. Jackson was included only as an afterthought, as further evidence to the perils of opposing the Nixon administration. Jackson was drawn into the public mind as the caboose to the Kent train. The fact that it had originally been on a different track was soon forgotten. Thus, as the student-as-nigger express backed out in June, Jackson-never fully into the station of public concern-led the way to oblivion. Falsely coupled to the planned obsolescence of the Kent State-Cambodia issue, the enduring problems of the Southern black went...
...even an afterthought of empire, but rather, a byproduct of the empire's collapse. Its first military use was as a secret Royal Navy supply base (code-named Port T) during World War II. Abandoned after the war, it was resurrected in 1957 as a substitute for an R.A.F. staging base in Ceylon, which had come under political attack. It is a supposedly vital relay station in Britain's high-frequency military radio link, and is zeroed in on the Skynet military communications satellite. But Gan does not have attack capability. Its only missiles are small weather rockets...
...lose," he said. "More important things to worry about in life. I'm probably a better man for it. Now all I want to do is to go home to my wife and children, cut the grass, eat fattening foods and see what materializes." Then, as an afterthought, he muttered: "Next time I'll really...