Already the moon had risen, a flake of waxy alabaster in a blue sky thin with light.

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Once thick pieces flake away under a bit of pressure, remove the fish from the oven.

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Flake has been a primary target of pressure from gun control groups.

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Mr Flake, a former congressman, has become a voice of the emerging black middle class.

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But an opinion piece in the New York Daily News this week by the Reverend Floyd Flake, a former Democratic congressman and a leading practitioner of faith-based community building, warned the leading candidates that there is one category they ignore at their peril and that's white men.

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His opponent is Jeff Flake, a deficit hawk who has cast votes against lots of popular programmes.

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Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world.

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Floyd Flake, an influential black pastor in New York, is a passionate supporter of vouchers.

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