Word: tot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one man need by expended. Concealing himself in the nearby W.C. on some pretext until the appropriate time, all he need do is rush one or two shells tot he trusty longbore, jerk the lanyard, and the destructive deed is done. None of your flimsy cloak-and-dagger time-bomb plots--not on your life. Thanks to the keen vision of our forefathers, Harvard is now in a good position to strike a strong counterblow in its Battle for Survival...
...kiddies form a vast, commercial audience, almost as important to U.S. business as their soap-opera-loving mothers; each has become a sort of quivering vacuum tube, and the man who can tune in on exactly the right wave length automatically assumes the same power over the tot that Edgar Bergen holds over Charlie McCarthy. Given just the right nudge, Junior, even at distances up to 3,000 miles, will open his mouth and say, "Mamma...
...supervisors, but had given examinations to each of the 140,000 enumerators and had put them through four days of training. It had printed a million maps which showed boundaries, streets and houses in more than 200,000 districts. It had prepared to hire 8,500 people to tot up the results...
...Tot. Actress Bergman was in a chintz-decorated three-room clinic suite, the U.S. public learned from its front pages.* "She is so taken with the tot," glowed one dispatch. Said Dr. Guidotti: "Miss Bergman is one of the happiest mothers I have ever known . . . The baby is one of the healthiest and prettiest I ever delivered." Flowers soon filled one room of the suite, and congratulatory messages flooded in, many from the U.S. (among the notable well-wishers: Marion, Davies and Ernest Hemingway...
...Boston's old North End, five men worked behind a wire screen, piling up plump sacks of U.S. currency with the mechanical indifference of butchers stacking daisy hams into a cooler. It was 7 o'clock-time for the Boston office of Brink's, Inc. to tot up the day's armored-truck collections and lock them in the vault for the night...