Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a touch of éclat and a forthright manner that clearly indicated he knew what he was doing. An experienced mountain climber, Willig had been planning his adventure for a year. He had punctiliously taken a day of leave from his job as a designer for the Ideal Toy Corp., and was utterly confident that he would make it to the top of his own private Everest...
...nearest village is six miles away; the closest supermarket is 28. My car is not a toy-it is a life support. But I would grimace and agree to the proposed gasoline tax if all revenue were used solely for the development of new sources of energy. But when the breeder-reactor program is scrapped, when a hydroelectric dam cannot be built in order to preserve the lousewort, the crisis seems just another means of taxing and depleting our greatest natural resource, the citizens...
...crooned in a raspy baritone, he slid one hand into his pocket and drew out an enormous Bowie knife, which he held to the guitarist's throat in a skinnyboned imitation of a hard-ass punk. After picking his teeth with the knife, the Boy tired of that toy, only to pick out a new one for the next number: a pink plastic pleasure machine, with which he caressed his bony pelvis in mock ecstasy between stanzas. As the set ended, the star slithered on his belly among the drums, to caustic chords and dimming lights, his death-throes ceasing...
...Toy. The scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...
...dropped it into 10 major cities from Los Angeles to Miami-to universal amaze. For the man who has everything, or the company that wants something more, the Heli-Home may indeed outclass the private jet as a practical, all-purpose, tax-deductible vehicle that is not just a toy. Or, for $10.000 a week, plus pilot's salary, plus gas (75 gal. per hour), the party thrower or corporate showman can rent an H-H and be up and away...