Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grievously undermined any role Congress could play in influencing his Vietnam decisions. This is the crux of the dispute -- Fulbright and the eight members of the committee quite logically feel that Johnson has been guilty of duplicity. And they have decided to punish him by withholding a diplomatic tool he has misused in the past...
...pair of vice presidents deciding whether to serve steak at $5.25 a person or rib roast at $4.75. Then there is the matter of vegetables. Will asparagus be cheaper than brussels sprouts, or will carrots be cheaper still? When it comes to making such decisions, McDonnell's favorite tool is his slide rule. For a Christmas party, he once figured out that twelve ounces of eggnog per person was precisely the right amount to assure conviviality without too much hilarity?and ordered the whisky accordingly. The vice president who asks for a third drink on the company airplane...
...robberies; 2) the strict segregation of all youngsters from 15 to 16 years of age, easily the most lawless group in the country; 3) the destruction of all automobiles, for they are stolen at the rate of half a million a year, and are a vital tool in just about every caper from bank robbery to smuggling; and 4) the elimination of big business, which wittingly and unwittingly encourages illegal financial operations and offers attractive investment opportunities to big-time racketeers...
...high-speed ticker, which flashes stock transactions as fast as the human eye can read, fell behind by a record 27 minutes. In the first hour's speculative fervor, the bellwether Dow-Jones industrial average jumped 13.70 points as buyers bid up the price of airlines, railroads, machine-tool and other equipment makers. But the rally wilted as quickly as it grew, and the industrial index retreated to 848.50 -up a mere 1.90 points for the week...
...revise its dogma on equipping Volunteers with money and supplies. The official line holds that the Volunteer should offer only himself, not material aid, because such aid will discourage local people from making their own contributions. The rule is a sensible one, but frequently the equipment in question--a tool or a motion picture projector or an up-to-date text--is simply not available on the spot, while it may prove impossible to raise locally all the money needed for a given project. To me it seems a little ridiculous to spend thousands of dollars training Volunteers and sending...