Word: dowell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exchanged echoing dialogue with a warbling Saffer. The cellos, too, seemed not to be standard, modern cellos, but rather like those of Handel's time, having a much thinner, more delicate sound. Most of the strings played their instruments in the baroque style, holding their bows partway up the dowel instead of by the frog, as is the modern method...
...Holzer's view, the best accommodations are often the least costly. She speaks from experience. Her daughter Margaret, 29, is a quadriplegic who makes her living selling reservations for a large hotel chain. All Margaret needs to perform her job is an inexpensive wooden dowel, which she uses to tap the computer keyboard. "That," says Holzer, "is not putting an undue burden on anyone...
...remark was intended to paint Quayle as a man of the people and his rival as a privileged elitist, it was disingenuous to say the least: both men sprang from well-known, well- heeled and politically active families. On his father's side, Quayle's family ran the Chicago Dowel Co., which produced Lincoln Logs. The Vice President's maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a prosperous conservative publisher of newspapers in Arizona and Indiana. Gore's father, Al Gore Sr., is a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee whose opposition to the war in Vietnam helped defeat...