Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over, she sits on the floor of her cluttered office next door to the President's private study, and deals with the flood of letters stacked on every horizontal surface, reading and making notes until about midnight. "In the Nixon years," she says, "this office was a p.r. tool. People who came in were given a photo of the President and a list of his accomplishments. Now they tell us what they think, positive or negative. They don't all leave here getting everything they ask for. But they do get the opportunity to participate in their Government...
Certain friends, from Howard Cosell to a Marxist novelist, see a foul conspiracy at play. The press is corrupt. Club owners buy and sell journalists. The press is a tool of sports management. Why don't I write that...
...forced Cairo to teach Libya's erratic strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, a lesson in good manners. Rather like a stern uncle rebuking a wayward nephew, President Anwar Sadat described Gaddafi as "a second Napoleon" and "just a child"-inspiring Tripoli spokesmen to dismiss the Egyptian President as "a Zionist tool...
Microwaves, though they are being employed for everything from sending telephone messages to cooking steaks, would seem to be a highly unlikely medical tool. Like other electromagnetic radiation-notably X rays-they damage tissue at high enough energies. But the Faulkner microwaves are perfectly safe. Reason: the radiation involved is emitted not by the detector, as in conventional breast X rays (mammography), but by the body itself...
Combined with the activities of "booster groups" such as the Friends of Harvard Football, which search for students and frequently sponsor dinners and outings for prospective Harvard athletes in a given area, the alumni network provides what Harvard coaches agree is an essential tool for digging up needed talent. Throw in the efforts of recruiting "superstars" such as F. Philip Locke '33, who scours California for the likes of All-American Pat McInally '75, and the Harvard athletic program is clearly at no loss for talent scouts...