Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Father Richard Engle of St. Philip the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in Columbus, Ohio, to deliver an impassioned plea. He urged all parishioners who owned handguns to turn them in to the church the following Sun day. While police stood by, twelve hand guns, 16 starter pistols and 20 toy weapons were turned in during the Sunday Masses on Oct. 12. The metal was melted down and made into crosses...
...into a display stand-for Nabisco items-stamped "1776 Bicentennial 1976." The kit is called, appropriately, "Profit-Builder No. 1-W." Baskin-Robbins sells "Red, White 'n Blueberry" ice cream cones; a Boston massage parlor offers a Bicentennial special (the regular-er, services for a 10% discount); and Toy-Tex Novelty Co. provides Bicentennial litter bags with Betsy Ross's flag stamped on them...
...into our shack chanting, "Fried potatoes, Fried potatoes, Fried onions...," spuming beer down over his chin like a baby gurgling on its pablum (greasily, in big, viscous bubbles), his Coors can outstretched as he flexed to show off his "megalopulous muscles," twittering about the floor like a wind-up toy (skittering into walls ever so lightly and then reversing his direction), telling us about his "Vitamin A" (as in acid) as Gay went to get his flute so he could demonstrate that he was not yet Ian Anderson...
...might have remained a thing of beauty and a toy forever. But the agent of its obscurity was also the cause of its revival. For too long, the combustion engine befouled the atmosphere and lulled Americans into a dangerous sloth. But today, the new conservation and the high incidence of circulatory and cardiac diseases have caused the natural life to be reappraised. The bicycle no longer seems juvenile; indeed, it offers the country transportation, romance and exercise at a fee that advertisers like to summarize as "pennies...
...lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps. Few attorneys dared to pipe back publicly. So for twelve years Judge Cannon presided as a choice gossip topic...