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Word: toy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This year," McCurdy said, "we're going to have to have a lot of things go right for us. We won't have the things to toy with that we did last year...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Wait 'Til Last Year | 1/18/1977 | See Source »

...Stuffed toy animals make ideal Christmas presents for small children...

Author: By R. "SANTA" Weisman, | Title: The Crimson Santa Presents | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...whole carload of villains led by a well-tailored richie called Devereau (Patrick McGoohan), who is embroiled in an unlikely scheme to protect his art forgeries. Suspense movies are not supposed to make perfect sense, but it is always nice when they come close. Hiller and Higgins toy with sorting out the plot only for the sake of appearances and waste a good deal of energy reaching for laughs. The result is compounded confusion, relieved only by one novel touch. This must be the first train movie in which the hero keeps getting thrown off the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Milk Train | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...suffer the oppression of their status as a minority in this country. It is obvious that he draws most or all of his substantive information from Professor Glazer's book, and not from any actual contact with persons or facts related directly to the issues at hand. Charles D. Toy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asian "Underutilization" | 11/2/1976 | See Source »

...favors and other products. But one who did not celebrate Pooh's 50th birthday last week was Christopher Robin Milne, 56, the author's son, whose 1974 autobiography, The Enchanted Places, described the trials of growing up in the shadow of a Teddy bear. "Pooh is a toy I had as a child," says Mime, now a bookstore owner in Devon, England. "The exploitation of the books makes me sick. I do hope there will be no more of these anniversaries." Anyway, as Pooh's gloomy pal Eeyore philosophized in The House at Pooh Corner: "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 25, 1976 | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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