Word: toye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't pay to hit Joe Louis so hard it hurts him. By keeping things on a friendly basis, such smart boxers as Bob Pastor and Billy Conn induced the Brown Bomber to toy with them for as many as eleven and 13 rounds before the inevitable kill. But Tami (rhymes with mammy) Mauriello, the tubby Bronx challenger, decided to play rough. At the opening bell of last week's title fight he walked out from his corner, took one look at the overconfident Louis, and pitched a right with the urgency of a man unloading a hand...
Jazz and Democracy. By last week the U.S. imprint was strong on Japan. Japanese girls strolled hand in hand with G.I.s beside the imperial moat. Children played with toy models of American "jeepu"; women copied U.S. fashions. In Tokyo a special school taught U.S. slang, and cinema fans queued up to see Hollywood movies (biggest hit: Tall in the Saddle, a Western). In geisha houses, the girls gaily crooned You Are My Sunshine...
...prizewinner was a five-foot straw woman with a lifelike straw baby on her back. The baby did the scaring, with a toy windmill whose blades swung in the wind. From the woman's belt dangled a paper banner inscribed: "Increase Production...
...Self-Running 10-Inch Scale-Model Delivery-Truck Kit Powered by Magic Motor"- a toy that is easily assembled by any father who follows the simple directions: "Pass Section F through Slot AA, taking care not to fold tabs behind washers (see Fig. 9). . . . Lock into box shape by inserting tabs C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L into slots C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L. . . ." - "with a bestial oath, I drove a safety pin through them and lashed them to the roof...
Hiroshimans flocked to a makeshift horse racecourse reconverted from an army drill ground, and into 17 movie houses (four more than before pika-don). The current feature was one of Japan's first postwar movies called Blast of Love. And for the children, there was a new toy, The Peace Game, priced cheaply at seven...