Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gable's mother died before he was a year old, and the shy, chubby, awkward, somewhat spoiled only child-who played a Teddy bear in a grade-school play-was raised on a mixture of hazard and earthy practicality. For three years he worked as a tool dresser in an Oklahoma oilfield, climbing 80-ft. derricks to grease the crown block and swinging 16-lb. sledge hammers...
...Hill. Some of the aims alarm the Colorados, who have only three men on the governing council. They do not like the Nardone-Haedo plan for modernizing Uruguay's army, fear that it may become a tool to keep the two leaders in power indefinitely. But about the worst the Colorados have done is to try to clip Haedo's wings in a farcical attempt at impeachment-because he failed to get congressional permission before leaving the country to attend the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan. The chances are that the impeachment trial will get pigeonholed...
Open Secret. All the while, Greenburg has hungered to bring San Antonio an educational TV station-"the most important tool ever put in the hands of the educational world." By last year, after seven years of trying, a group of like-minded citizens had raised only $7,500 of a needed $400,000. Taking over one afternoon, Greenburg marched into San Antonio's three commercial TV stations, raised $150,000 from them. To keep the drive going, he climaxed his weekly telecasts crying: "If you want $1,000,000 worth of education, send me a buck...
...security pact, and the hostility of the whole left against the undemocratic attitude of the Kishi government, especially the way it pushed through the pact. Fifth, the anti-American acts of violence were caused by the impression that Eisenhower, through his intended visit, had become a tool in the party politics of Kishi...
...been greeted triumphantly if he had come from a moderately successful summit meeting and a friendly visit to Russia, as planned. Without this background--as highly responsible Japanese realized and immediately expressed--he ceased to be, as somebody said to me, a "messenger of peace" and had become a tool of reactionary and, as many still feel in Japan, militaristic party politics...