Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black history should not be looked upon as a tool for political purposes, Franklin said. "It must become more than a handmaiden of political and social reform. It must become the ground on which American scholarship can be tested," Franklin said...
...danger in the Regents' plan. And Reagan's reply to Hitch's practical appeal showed the political threats in their most venomous form. Hitch might have hoped that Reagan would argue on the same administrative-efficiency terms. Not a chance. Reagan bluntly admitted that the plan was a political tool. The Regents thought that the chancellors had appointed too many liberals, he said. It was time for the Regents to "intervene and put a little balance back into the picture...
...that was painted to look like her. She reported: "The doll always lay on the sofa. For days on end Kokoschka would lock himself in and talk to no one but the doll. At last, he had me where he wanted me: helpless in his hand, a docile, mechanical tool." But she too remembered, and kept the fans always with her as affectionate mementos until her death in Manhattan...
Chickened Out. The decision of whether or not to print words that most readers still consider obscene is one that will not just go away. Four-letter words, and elaborations on them, have become a tool of protest politics and almost de rigueur occurrences on stage, in movies, in books and in the public vocabulary of many celebrities...
...holes in the night before." He could justify that in a column: "You've got to understand the drink. In a world where there is a law against people ever showing emotions, or ever releasing themselves from the greyness of their days, a drink is not a social tool. It is a thing you need in order to live." But a doctor has told Breslin otherwise-that he's a sitting duck for a heart attack-and he's cut back...