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Word: toole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joined the gang around 1965. Hohimer was a career burglar with 22 arrests on his record, twelve of them for burglary and robbery. He also showed a marked penchant for violence. His favorite weapon on heists was a propane blowtorch, which he used not simply as an entry tool but also to coerce reluctant robbery victims by threatening to burn off their hair. Hohimer's former wife told police that he once cut off her hair while in a jealous rage and on another occasion emptied a revolver in a circular pattern around their infant daughter as a warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Percy Lead No. 273 | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...must redefine black studies so that it is not just an ideological tool giving blacks a new sense of their worth," he added...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Kilson and Guinier Debate The Role of Black Studies | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...nominate the American homemaker for Man of the Year. She/he alone has suppressed rising meat prices with the only real tool: abstinence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1973 | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

STEEL ARENA. A bunch of stunt drivers tool around the back country risking their necks for the breezy hell of it, living out some shabby fantasy of success. The drivers are all portrayed by real stunt drivers, which gives the cast a unifying verisimilitude and a certain brazen clumsiness in the expository scenes. These are scant, presumably because everyone is more comfortable behind the wheel. But even the various automobile stunts begin to lose their punch the third time around. The plot, almost inevitably, concerns the one driver who wants to push the risk a little further, and how fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...position paper accuses the department of being a "trade school" preparing students to be "marketable economists". "As future commodities, students must be prepared to be what their buyers want them to be--tool users who are themselves tools," the paper says. The paper also says the visiting committee is dominated by "leading capitalists...

Author: By Walter N. Rothschild iii, | Title: URPE to Present Ec. Dept. Reforms To Grad Students | 12/1/1973 | See Source »

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