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  • I couldn’t reach past his fear nor make him understand my words, and then I made matters worse when I asked again about Toot and used the term tonton macoute.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • I couldn’t reach past his fear nor make him understand my words, and then I made matters worse when I asked again about Toot and used the term tonton macoute.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • I couldn’t reach past his fear nor make him understand my words, and then I made matters worse when I asked again about Toot and used the term tonton macoute.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • I couldn’t reach past his fear nor make him understand my words, and then I made matters worse when I asked again about Toot and used the term tonton macoute.

    Heaven’s Prisoners James Lee Burke 1988

  • In the decades that followed, a succession of dictators turned the army into a personal police force with the most notorious, "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his son "Baby Doc," terrorizing their own population through paramilitary gangs known as tonton macoutes.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local By Lynn Holland 2010

  • Here, Hirsh has illustrated three of little K'tonton's "big adventures" ... 1) riding on a chopping knife (narrowly escaping from being made into gefilte fish); 2) spinning on a runaway Hannukah dreidel [top]; 3) reading the Megillah after "masquerading" inside a hamantash [Purim pastry].

    Marilyn Hirsh. 2009

  • Many areas of Port-au-Prince were settled either by tonton makout - Duvalier's death squads - given land for their service or by squatters.

    Mark Schuller: Falling through the cracks or unstable foundations? 2010

  • Si mon tonton tond ton tonton ton tonton sera tondu

    Time for Tricky Tongue Twisters 2010

  • Many areas of Port-au-Prince were settled either by tonton makout - Duvalier's death squads - given land for their service or by squatters.

    Mark Schuller: Falling Through the Cracks, or Unstable Foundations? 2010

  • Semenjak hacchan pulang dari perantauan kemaren, hacchan recharge X segono bonyok maksudnya buat penyegaran rohani gituh muahaha,, hacchan nonton video2 X simpenan baik yang dah ditonton maupun blom ditonton,, errr .. okey de kebanyakan hacchan blom nonton jadi hacchan tonton kemaren itu mumpung sempat ...

    mayoineko Diary Entry mayoineko 2008

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