Word: toy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposes him now opposes the great forces to which he has suddenly given expression, and will inevitably find himself pushed toward the wrong path in consequence. This is one war you cannot toy with. It is bigger than anybody...
...been easy. Packard employes wear little "Work to Win" badges,* paste windshield stickers on their cars. In the rambling Packard plants, huge 15-ft. red, white & blue billboards blazon new worker-composed slogans each week, twin scoreboards tally each department's efficiency and production. At plant entrances toy soldiers march across miniature battlefields to show how each division's record compares with all others...
...high it will go not even Brigadier General Joseph Wilson Byron, head of the Army Exchange Service, could accurately guess. But General Byron, a quiet, easygoing West Pointer who left the service to run his family's leather business after World War I and returned last July, can toy with some intriguing figures...
Escape. In Chicago, Walter Holberg pointed two toy pistols at a jeweler, got himself arrested, explained he was tired of doing housework for his wife, wanted to live in jail...
...plot such as this gives Orson Welles much opportunity to present emotion on the screen, to revel in lights and shadows. He does so unrelentingly. The result is that the characters and the situations are never quite believable because of over-dramatization. Like a child with a new toy, Orson Welles uses the new technical discoveries beyond the point of satiation. He has not yet realized that many things are best said simply...