Word: though
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Kudrow, though, tried to convince me to care about my own past. "We always forget how important history is. It informs everything that happens after," she said. But my ancestors didn't seem to have those kinds of big, important stories. "What if you found out that one of them was a writer for the Yiddish newspaper?" she asked, in what might have been the worst sales pitch ever...
...asked me how my son, whom she knew about, was doing, and I felt just a little connected to her. Then she asked me to e-mail his birthplace and -date, as well as my wife's and her parents'. And I was happy to do it. Because even though I may never look at Carol's giant book, whoever does should get to see the most interesting page...
...quickly. In an attempt to quell the tribal strife that has long plagued the fractious region, alcohol will be banned there after May 11. In recent years, the island nation has seen escalating levels of domestic and sexual violence. Local police point to excessive intoxication as a culprit, though squabbles over a natural-gas-pipeline project have also contributed to the turbulence...
...verdict represented welcome progress for the stalled, embattled body. However, it would be a mistake to view the passage of this bill as a bipartisan victory. Along such lines, the media has covered Mass. Senator Scott Brown’s reach across the aisle to support the bill as though his actions were notable. However, voting in favor of such a relatively insignificant piece of legislation does not make Brown a maverick; rather, it highlights the unacceptably polarized state of the Senate today...
...said that Harvard students were relieved to hear from Samuel H. Crihfield ’11, who spent last summer in Chile and is currently there to study. Though Crihfield is safe, he said he is trapped in the southern town of Pucón due to damaged roads and bridges...