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Word: toi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film may very well break European records too. In Paris, where it opened last October, 1 million people went to see the robots, Artoo Detoo and Threepio, at the annual toy show, and kids say goodbye with a wave of the arm and a "Que la force soit avec toi." Their parents are standing in line too, and journals have hailed its brave statement of the human spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Second Strike | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Miles from Hanoi, another flyer tried to steer his parachute away from militiamen on the ground. Landing, he pulled out his pistol, but the North Vietnamese disarmed him, yelling, "Hands up! Hands up!" in English. The pilot, in Vietnamese, replied, "Toi xin hang [I surrender]." A third pilot only managed to smear his face with mud before he was captured. All told, the raids added 93 Americans to the list of missing and captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Nixon's Blitz Leads Back to the Table | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...drifting can be dangerous. In a narrow South Jersey channel, flanked by buildings and shadowed by vehicular traffic, the Joneses are nearly run down by the Kuddle-Toi, Too, an expanse of costly cabin cruiser operated by a corpulent man who apparently makes little distinction between yachting and barreling a large sedan. "We're gonna crush your crappy little boat!" cries the man's wife, as Mrs. Jones skillfully mars the word Kuddle with her paddle. In Delaware, Jones accidentally splits his wife's scalp with an anchor, and later nearly comes to grief against a drawbridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Merrily, Merrily | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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