dower
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As historians John Dower and Ronald Takaki have shown, such exterminationist sentiments were fueled by anti-Asian racism, which framed the Pacific War in the American imagination as a race war.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2025
“It’s a simple question of who gets to decide and under the Texas Constitution … that authority is vested in the governor of the state of Texas,” Dower said.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2021
They were “oil and water,” said historian John Dower, who produced an Academy Award-nominated documentary about the artists in 1986, “Hellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2020
For Heather Dower, marketing and communications manager at ESL UK, the British division of the world's largest esports organisation, the issue doesn't lie with the winner but the judges.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2018
He made occasion to go to the Rectory, and to the Dower House, and spent some little time at each; and the hour came round.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 5
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Vocabulary from the Magna Carta, List 2
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