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Word: toolboxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story involves Mr. Baker abducting thefemale student at gunpoint and taking her to asecluded place off Route 23 in Ann Arbor,"Stejskal said in the affidavit. "He tells her todisrobe, to take a toolbox from his car and thenuses the tools to torture...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: 'Net Case Raises Free-Speech Debate | 2/18/1995 | See Source »

Tucked away in a corner gallery of the Fogg Art Museum there lies a fascinating and somewhat quirky collection of...well, things. Some of them can be called "art objects," and others might seem more appropriate in a toolbox. The exhibition intended to bring to the viewers' attention the various work that objects carry out, be it making things or simply being made...

Author: By James R. Murdoch, | Title: "Object" of Desire | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Like many illegal Irish, Colm began by working in the building trades as a "J.F.K. carpenter," as the new Irish arrivals at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport were called. "As soon as you get off the plane they hand you a toolbox and you go to work." He has also moonlighted as a fiacre driver in Central Park and a boxer in Atlantic City, New Jersey, although his real ambition is someday to be a cop or fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shadow of the Law | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...battle grinds on in the gulf, thoughts of a quick solution irresistibly spring to mind. Why not assassinate Saddam? Or threaten to nuke Baghdad? Or carpet bomb the Iraqis to kingdom come? The U.S., in fact, does have potent weapons that have not yet been unsheathed. "We have a toolbox that's full of lots of tools, and I brought them all to the party," General Colin Powell said last week. Field commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf bragged, "We could end the war in two days, but we don't want to destroy Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Options: Three Ethical Dilemmas | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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