Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bretagna, the second best goalie in Cambridge and reputedly the best toy hockey game player in the world, danced with Joe Cavanagh. American Dream come true, in the Varsity Club. Max Bleakey, the manager, looked impatient so the rest of the team stopped playing pool, filled their pockets with Mars bars, and headed...
American has cut the 4? cost of laundering each washroom towel by switching from cloth to paper. By eliminating the more expensive blue cloth towels and going to all white, Eastern is saving $10,000 a year. The line has also adopted a unisex philosophy in passing out toy pins: formerly the wings given to girls were marked "Stewardess" and those given to boys were stamped "Pilot." Now they say "Eastern Air Lines." Savings: $9,000 a year...
Brocher set out to rectify the omission. His starting point was a provocative idea: "Give a serious and powerful man a child's toy and leave him alone with it. After a short while he experiences, painfully or happily, how his childhood was, and he begins to understand both himself and his children better." Brocher, now head of the sociopsychology department at Frankfurt's Sigmund Freud Institute, started his first "play school for parents" in Ulm, Germany, in 1955. Since that time, several additional Brocher-inspired schools have opened in Germany and other European countries, and the concept...
...pretty nutty," acknowledges John Tunstill, publisher of Miniature Warfare and president of the London War Games Society. "Most people think we're a bunch of old eccentrics pushing toys around, but it's like chess in a way." The devotees follow the art in publications like Tun-still's, sport their own society ties, and patronize specialized stores such as London's Tradition Shop or The Soldier Shop in Manhattan. Some concentrate on exquisitely detailed toy warriors, others on arcane tactical research...
Historian H.G. Wells started the craze in Britain with Little Wars, a 1913 book codifying the rules of toy battles that he and his friends fought out near his country home. Many of today's rule books draw heavily on Wells' work, devised, as he put it, to attract "boys of every age and girls of the better sort." With deadly seriousness, Prussian officers originally developed the idea in the mid-19th century to hone their tactical skills for actual warfare. Today, of course, professional war-gamers play out their grim battles in locked rooms in Washington...