Word: toole
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...Sept. 11 investigation--and "a couple hundred" more had been arrested overseas with FBI help. One of them, Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, arrested in London, has been charged with failing to report his previous knee surgery when applying for a pilot's license. "We have to use every tool available to us," says a top Justice Department official. "That includes detaining people, looking for violations, being aggressive...
...coolly detached age of irony. Now people ask what the definition of irony is and it is just confusing. Is irony a stance of instinctive mockery where anything with or without a pulse demands a deprecating quip, or is it a smart, potent tool of analysis and detachment that is all the more important in a country’s dark hour? It turns out that irony—the smart kind—and patriotism, in its flag-flying, blood-giving glory, are both resilient. And, comedians claim (and humor website hits corroborate) both humor and national pride fortify...
...irony didn’t go anywhere because irony is actually a crucial tool. Even one of its most outspoken critics, Purdy, says so himself...
...structure is imposing and impressive. Constructed using nary a power or even hand tool, the bed has been lofted on a frame made entirely of wooden poles and rope. Three of the poles actually came all the way from Matchett’s home state of Wisconsin in the neighboring town of Norskedalen. “I needed some longer poles, and we had these sitting around at my house, so my dad brought them up,” he explains...
...spent some years living in South Africa during the bad old days when the white government used national identity documents as an insidious way of subjugating the black majority. There, the national ID was a tool of repression...