Word: canings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spring of 2001, Kaitlin B. Heller ’05 was standing in front of Massachusetts Hall amid a sea of living wage campaign protesters when she spotted a shadowy figure, cloaked in a black cape, cane in hand, lurking around the fringes of the crowd...
Heller remembers a time when she and Tusk were on an arts retreat and, out of nowhere, Tusk announced he was going to go “speak with the elements.” He left the group, approached the edge of a cliff and began waving his cane...
...Fong] will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, graying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying ... The University of Hawaii was tough, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection...
...Fong] will be the first person of Asian descent to sit in the upper house of Congress. A handsome, graying man, he is an independent Republican and a self-made millionaire whose immigrant father came from Kwangtung province to work in the Oahu cane fields for $12 a month. The seventh of eleven children, Fong decided as a small boy to lift himself out of poverty, worked his way through high school by selling newspapers, shining shoes and caddying ... The University of Hawaii was tough, but Hiram Fong got through in three years with honors, with a bewildering collection...
...movie. Minor characters keep turning up--Anna's menacing husband, her body-builder lover, William's divinely cranky secretary--to keep it hopping. Anna's story that she accidentally-on-purpose ran over her spouse in their car seems preposterous. But one day he hobbles in on his cane and starts jealously beating on William. The husband may have been ill used, but he's still desperately in love...