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He thought up elaborate schemes to get me on the wrong side of Mom, including one called the Tonka Truck Ploy.
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume Jennifer O'Connell 2007
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He thought up elaborate schemes to get me on the wrong side of Mom, including one called the Tonka Truck Ploy.
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume Jennifer O'Connell 2007
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I remember this failing only once: at a screening of a Disney movie called Tonka, the story of a wild horse tamed by a young Sioux brave named White Bull.
Michael Winship: Censorship: Toys in the Nation's Attic Michael Winship 2010
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I remember this failing only once: at a screening of a Disney movie called Tonka, the story of a wild horse tamed by a young Sioux brave named White Bull.
Michael Winship: Censorship: Toys in the Nation's Attic Michael Winship 2010
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Today's article is about a group in Minnetonka called Tonka CARES that hopes to reduce teen substance abuse.
Archive 2006-02-01 MN Politics Guru 2006
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-- This leguminous plant yields the fragrant seed known as Tonka bean, used in scenting snuff and for other purposes of perfumery.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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Some of the stories are by literary giants such as James Joyce ( "The Dead," from 1914, about a haunting lost love), Robert Musil (his bleak, unforgettable 1924 novella, "Tonka," exploring love, disease and mystery) and Vladimir Nabokov ( "The Moon in Fialta," a 1936 story in which a married man's stolen kiss with a woman in the snow stays with him for the rest of his life).
The Puzzle of Love 2008
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But he began to chafe at the roles the Disney organization was offering him, and when he refused to appear in "Tonka," the studio suspended him.
NYT > Home Page By RICHARD SEVERO 2010
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We didn't have the "Tonka" toys of today, but that didn't diminish our imaginations.
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I liked the Power Movers, but after you were used to playing with Tonka trucks, their size was a disappointment.
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