Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of all we were interested in this Jack Guy guy. Frankly, we didn't believe he existed, except as an advertising model. Imagine them inventing this old guy "Guy." And all the gaff it tossed around about his starting the toy line: "Back in the 1950s, Jack Guy got concerned because the art of making folk toys was disappearing from his native Blue Ridge Mountains..." The publicity went on to talk about how the toys had now spread throughout the country and even into some "furrin'" countries. (A few paragraphs later they say there were some sold in "foreign...
...winter when Simon ridiculed some energy-crisis observations by the Shah of Iran, whom Nixon immediately defended. A demon on the telephone, Simon sometimes makes more than 100 calls in a single evening. At a champagne party in his honor last week, his FEO staff presented him with a toy telephone...
...half-knew she was exploiting and being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like she'd just been stamped out by a plastiglob toy set to jiggle from the rearview mirror. She seemed almost threatening, as though her super-tapered body slimmed down to huge hidden webbed fins at the extremities. In Musketeers she gets to exude a natural clumsiness--she steps into buckets and falls down stairs. The slapstick here works as it does...
...wording may well represent a new low in educators' jargon. Skill No. 5 in the basic concepts module in the communications curriculum area, for example, is "oral response on a concrete level using objects." That means, the manual explains helpfully, that a child can "identify a toy car by saying a word, phrase or sentence about...
...belonged to the Shah himself, looks as if it would have crumbled to dust if he had ever knelt on it. Though they are lethal weapons, his damascened swords and daggers are inlaid with golden flowers and lines of flowing script. The astrolabe looks more like an extravagantly ingenious toy than a working navigation instrument. Even the coins of Isfahan look too pretty to spend...