Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pamphlet attacking Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as a "tool of Wall Street and isolationists" was reportedly circulated in Yard dormitories last night...
...course, they consider an ideology and an opiate. In all this there is much with which Hromadka believes Christians would have to agree ... We must confess that [religion] has often been an opiate, that it has carried along much of superstition and legend, that it has been made a tool of exploitation...
...marksman 1) measures out a charge of powder, 2) pours it down the barrel, 3) moistens a cloth patch with saliva, 4) puts a lead ball on the patch, 5) sets patch and ball in the muzzle, 6) taps the ball with a little mallet or some other appropriate tool, 7) trims away the excess cloth, 8) shoves the ball down the barrel with a short ramrod called a bullet starter, 9) works the ball home with a long ramrod, 10) deposits a priming charge in the pan. He uses black powder instead of smokeless (which is too powerful...
...Chicago tool & die manufacturer named Clem Caditz began collecting Matisse prints last spring. He bought armfuls of them, but what he really yearned for was a Matisse original. The hitch was that all the originals by famous painters cost too much. Caditz sat down and wrote Matisse a letter: he had just $50 to $100 to spend; could the old master draw him something for that kind of money...
...always been followed--at a distance of course--by hordes of undergraduates worshipping in his tootsteps. During the 30's when political activity tan unchecked through the streets of Cambridge. Conant was a frequent target for extremist student groups. The far left-wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in "The Nation" by a former head of the University News Office who denounced Conant, but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer its finances...