Word: stooling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began what in official Dominican chronology is called Year One of the Era of Trujillo. Today, in Year 21, the Dominican Republic probably has more policemen and stool pigeons per capita than the Soviet Union. Trujillo shows no more mercy for his countrymen than he showed for the Haitians in 1937. There is no record of the number of Dominicans his bullyboys have shot and beaten to death, but exiles charge that the toll runs into thousands. Political prisoners who come back alive tell of Gestapo-model cells so constructed that the inmate can neither stand up nor lie down...
Mostly, the newly christened Dagmar sat on a high stool in a low-cut dress and just breathed. Somehow, televiewers liked to look at her. They clamored for more Dagmar. She was brought from her perch, led to the center of the stage, handed several sheets of paper and directed to read their malaprop contents. Dagmar performed with the same majestic and rhythmic perfection she brought to breathing. Televiewers loved...
...Road. In Beechwood, Wis., Mrs. Joseph Hann bruised her leg in a collision involving a car, a truck, and the tavern in which she was sitting when she was knocked off her bar stool...
...piano. In the clanging chords of the opening, he was in brilliant form. A few minutes later, he seemed to be bending close to the piano, listening. Then his left hand fell from the piano, his head almost touched the keys. A second later he rolled off the stool on to the floor. It was a cerebral hemorrhage. Doctors were called to the stage, but Simon Barere was beyond aid; within ten minutes he was dead...
...found it thrilling to savor the commonplace of American life again: to sit on a drug store stool, with a slight aroma of pharmaceuticals in my nostrils, and suck through a straw at a chocolate malted milk with an extra scoop of ice cream. Just watch that fellow dig the stuff, creamy and smooth, out of the bucket. Beyond any doubt ice cream is America's national food. When Americans came back from prisoner-of-war camps at the end of the last war there was one thing they all asked for: ice cream...