Word: totting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father, Tot Nguyen, was killed in the Vietnam...
...realize that I used to play with a lot of really stupid stuff when I was age four and up, but I am surprised how much the basic theory of toy design has changed since I was a tot. Most of what I found in this eight-page advertisement was merely frivolous, but occasionally there occurred such lapses in judgment that I was forced to wonder who was more mature: the toy designers and marketers (ostensibly adults) or the toy users (presumably kids...
...talking. Welles recounted his weird childhood. His father was a failed inventor who became an alcoholic, his mother a failed pianist who died when he was nine, and his older brother a schizophrenic. At 18 months, Orson was "discovered" by Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a family friend, who pronounced the tot a genius and supplied him with a violin, paints and a puppet theater, while ardently courting the genius' mother...
...audience filled the bowl of the Waterside Theater. Whole families climbed over the backs of seats to situate themselves. "We can make it," said a woman with a tot on her hip, "but I don't think Granny can get in this way." Granny went round by the aisle, and people stood up to let her in. Well into the show, when Dentist Tucker as Father Martin emoted an illness the script saddled him with, Granny said, "I don't get it. Last year Father Martin fainted. This year he just blacks out. It was better having...
Retailers were also jubilant. With the holidays behind them, merchants were finally able to tot up their receipts, and the figures made very good reading. Christmas sales more than fulfilled expectations, and the 1983 holiday shopping season was the best in nearly a decade. Revenues of major stores were more than 10% higher than last year. Sears' sales improved 35%, while Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson recorded a 25% gain. Predicted Dayton Hudson Chairman William Andres: "Consumer confidence will continue to grow, and we'll continue to see good retail sales...