Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish to study a "granfalloon" Just remove the skin of a toy balloon...
...separate youngsters from their mothers, boys try to knock it down; girls cry helplessly. There is little doubt that maternal encouragement -or discouragement-of such behavior plays a major role in determining adult personality. For example, a mother often stimulates male autonomy by throwing a toy far away from her young son, thus tacitly suggesting to him that he leave...
...toy counter is the most disappointing part of the store. There are only simple plastic toys and wooden guns with bayonets for 65?. A four-engine jetliner, which looks very much like a Pan Am 707 and has an insigne on the box similar to the Pan Am seal, costs...
...Toy Soldiers. Men complain that the girls have never been so unapproachable. Girls complain that the men do not approach. "Matters have got so bad that you kind of miss being pinched," complained a voluptuous blonde in pink veils last week. Madeleine Schmidbauer, 22, a winsome lieutenant in the guard of one of Munich's carnival princes for the past three years, agreed: "Formerly, when we came down the ramp, marching in step, we prided ourselves on being toy soldiers everyone wanted to play with. Now people look at us with the same disdain as they look...
...Park in the form of a giant teddy bear: this woebegone and helpless image was, for Oldenburg, "an incarnation of white conscience; as such, it fixes white New York with an accusing glance from Harlem but also one glassy-eyed from desperation. This may be why I chose a toy with the 'amputated' effect of teddy paws-handlessness signifies society's frustrating lack of tools...