Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robbers always stole jewelry and money; and because of the youth's long hair, many of the victims were uncertain at first whether he was a boy or girl. The man, much like the infamous Boston Strangler, liked to tie his victims on a bed and toy with them. Once, in a particularly perverted scene, he commanded the boy to rape a woman; the boy could...
...animals destroyed in one year because no one wanted them. With health and police costs added, it is no wonder that city halls are greatly concerned about fostering greater owner concern and responsibility. In this seemingly throwaway society, pets must not continue to be a temporary toy and whim that is cast out on the streets when people exhaust the initial novelty...
...They invaded an apartment building in Bet She'an, killing four of its inhabitants and wounding 19 more (including eight children). The guerrillas themselves were killed by counterattacking paratroopers a short time later in a pitched battle in which the terrorists tried to use a children's toy box as a makeshift barricade...
...some 3,500 Americans, a discarded beer can may prove a thing of beauty and a toy forever. They are members of the Beer Can Collectors of America, who respond to the sight of a 1969 Olde Frothingslosh container as ecstatically as a philatelist who discovers an 1856 one-cent British Guiana stamp tucked in the family Bible...
...capacity to disturb. It is part of his stage presence and power. One feels that others do his bidding because they are terribly afraid not to. Before achieving the throne he seems neurasthenically preoccupied, but at his coronation he is as playful as a youngster with a shiny new toy. This is one of several psychological effects subtly managed by Moriarty...