Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears to be waning. Even before the takeover, students in Phnom Penh had been demonstrating against the government, and the intensity of their protests is now likely to increase. More important, the palace coup by Lon Nol provides the Khmer Rouge and the North Vietnamese with a helpful propaganda tool in their efforts to rally the rural population to their side in Cambodia's unresolved war. If the Communists also step up their military efforts in the countryside, Lon Nol's troubles are bound to worsen drastically...
...election in the fall. Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale made an impassioned floor speech urging Congress to avoid "standing in the schoolhouse door" by barring busing. Mondale did not advocate busing in all situations and condemned it in some, but upheld "the use of reasonable transportation" as one tool to achieve integration "where it can be accomplished." Privately, congressional liberals advised civil rights groups to back down from rejection of any antibusing legislation; sentiment against busing is simply too strong, they argued, to prevent passage of some sort of bill, and it would be best to collaborate on a compromise statute...
...certain exactly when he left Nassau. Sources in the Hughes Tool Co. said that he was out of the Britannia Beach Hotel by 8 o'clock the morning of the Bahamian raid. If so, his whereabouts for the next two days is a mystery. Apparently, Hughes boarded a chartered boat for the first stage of his hegira-the 180-mile trip to an unspecified coastal haven somewhere near Miami...
THIS brand of poetry, consciously I should guess becomes something to move people. It becomes a tool of persuasion in addition to feeling especially if the poetry deals with social and political realities. Not only does the performer poet create life in the solitude of his art, he goes through the process all over again on stage: each reading becomes, at best a writing. Life becomes lived at the heightened level of art, just as art is given the breath of life. During his reading of a poem, the poet performer becomes the poem itself. The interaction between the poet...
...Tool Company. Toolco kept going right through the Depression and we, that is to say the company, owned a fair amount of stock, government securities and bonds. So I sold them. We had Australian government bonds and I took a terrible beating on them. And even that wasn't enough. Joe Schenck [a leading movie producer] had to have $3,000,000 more, and I had to come up with it. 1 tried to go to Toolco again. I was busy so I sent Noah down there, but he couldn't do a goddam thing because he didn...