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Word: tooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finan, in turn, attacked Sickles. He called him a tool of the union interests and took a swim in the Cheasepeake Bay to show Sickles that Taweswater wasn't polluted at all. He attacked Sickles' voting record. It was as though Mahoney wasn't even there...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Maryland Dems Pick Backlash Candidate | 10/5/1966 | See Source »

...integration is a word rarely heard among the younger leaders--they are tired of hearing that they must improve themselves so they can "step up" into the white society. This is why the poverty program, aimed at the "culturally deprived," is regarded by the nationalists as just another tool of the white man. In a conversation over why I, the White Student Liberal, was tutoring in Watts, a nationalist said, "Your job is not to tell those kids that they're as good as you are, but to prove that you're as good as they are." The young...

Author: By Stephen W. Frantz, | Title: Watts: "We're Pro-Black. If the White Man Views This as Anti-White, That's Up to Him." | 10/3/1966 | See Source »

...clamped it tight. As he crawled back toward his hatch, exhausted by that seemingly simple task, perspiration temporarily blinded his right eye. With that, Conrad ordered him back into Gemini's cabin, wiping out planned exercises with a hand-held jet maneuvering gun and a power tool for tightening bolts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The World Is Round | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...every human being, however noble or depraved, there is a thing called conscience"; and "large or small, that conscience usually, or at least often, drives a guilty person to confess." Then he added: "Those who hope (or fear) these decisions will eliminate confessions as a legitimate law-enforcement tool will be disappointed (or relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: A Gain in Confessions | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a new tool to teach English composition. Asked to write their own haiku (pronounced high-koo), children find that its precise rules and free content pose delightful puzzles, with solutions limited only by the flexibility of their vocabulary and the fetters on their fancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Poems to Learn By | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

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