Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacetime '30s, when pacifism was aggressively rooting R.O.T.C. units out of U.S. universities, Mrs. Roosevelt deplored the "war spirit," came out against toy soldiers as tending to arouse militarism in children. Early this month she said: 'If we're going to have compulsory military training after the war, then it should be for [both] boys and girls...
...bagless hunting trip in Mississippi, had refused to shoot a scrawny cub dragged into camp on a rope by two sympathetic Negroes. The "Teddy bear" he drew (see cut) passed into the national folklore, appeared in prose, verse, stage dialogue, political debate, persists as the toy bear which supplanted wooly lambs in the arms of children...
...Story. This afternoon I went down the hill into the cane fields after the tanks and infantry. Along the west side of a little toy railroad there were dead Japanese every few feet. Some of them were blasted beyond recognition. Under a little farmhouse there were six Jap soldiers, all with their right hands missing, their chests blasted. The old story - suicide by hand grenade...
...enemy fighter plane exploding like a toy...
...last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...