Word: totting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pose "electrical, mechanical or thermal" hazards to youngsters. Now the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare will be able to banish from the market such presently available items as a blowgun that allows the darts to be inhaled, a soldering set that exposes a child to molten lead, a tot-sized cookstove generating heat up to 600"', an electric iron with inadequate grounding, a catapult device launching a bird with a sharp beak, and furry animals whose ears attach by long metal pins...
...that makes Richard Burton so popular. Soft spoken, but with an incredible memory for faces and names, he appeals to the ladies. One woman he met at a coffee the other night had taken care of him when he was a six-year-old playing in the tot lot. He had not seen her in 21 years, but he remembered her. She will vote for him. Ironically her number one vote for City Council will go to Mayor Walter Sullivan, a man worlds apart from Hayes politically...
Designing for children is no pushover. Even in Paris, "Babies have no necks," sighed Cardin's top tot seamstress last week. "They have no waists, and no chests." Her boss, however, sees his work cut out for him, and no way to avoid it. Haute couture for children, Cardin explains, "was a perfectly logical, even indispensable step. The couturier's primary preoccupation is to impose his style. I did it first with women, then with men. It was only natural...
Decked out in a navy-blue double-breasted coat complete with brass buttons, the lass made a brave show of downing the traditional ration of grog. "It tastes quite nice, but I don't think I could manage the whole tot," said Princess Anne, 18, after a few sips. She did better at the British Navy dice game of "great uckers," rolling a six and helping her team to victory. Actually, the Princess' only fluff on her official review of the frigate H.M.S. Eastbourne involved the time-honored British chip. "You'll have to come to Buckingham...
...most blatant appeal to the freeloader in Everyman occurs at Cavanagh's on West 23rd Street, where drinking is done on the honor system; waiters bring full whisky bottles and setups to the tables, and customers are expected to tot up their own bar bills. "If you tell us you only had one double bourbon we'll believe you," reads an ad for Cavanagh's, and Ellman says: "We want the customer to feel that he's putting one over on us, that he's got the edge...