Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rational of men. His eccentricities-secretiveness, a great need for privacy -are caused by his intense awareness of time's relentless passage. He wants to use time to "create a string of masterpieces," as an acquaintance puts it. Social status means nothing to him, money is simply a tool of his trade...
...among the many executives who were moved. "It was a very innovative approach," he says. "Luckily, we had some positions coming open." The company has hired one 24-year-old man as a laborer so far. Some 80 people have got jobs - with the House of Vision, Thor Power Tool Co., F. W. Means & Co. and other firms - as a result of the children's crusade. The effort has had such singular success that offers are still coming in. An A+ to the kids at Holy Angels...
...this century. Dr. DuBois contended that for the most intellectually talented Black youth, no obstacles should be permitted to arise in the pursuit of educational fulfillment. And decades later, after thousands of lynchings, sit-ins, marches, and prayer meetings, it is no less true that knowledge is most powerful tool in the hands of an oppressed people: "knowledge of the self, as well as knowledge of the enemy." What better place to gain that knowledge of the men who run America than in the pseudo-liberal halls of Harvard...
William O. Douglas was the court's most undeviating liberal voice right up to his sudden retirement last week. In his later years, some critics came to view Douglas as a dangerous radical. Yet Douglas did not see the court as a tool for radical social change, "but rather as a mechanism to keep open the democratic process," says Yale Law Professor Thomas I. Emerson. To this end his decisions supported free speech, the broadest possible interpretation of individual constitutional rights and, less often noted, far-reaching Government power to regulate the economy...
...clamor that resulted in Nixon's downfall. (Sale suggests in a footnote that the break-in itself may have been deliberately bungled by James McCord on orders from the old Rockefeller-CIA network which sought revenge for Nixon's conversion of the Company into his personal political tool...