Word: toye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...music box ground out Fly Me to the Moon, Cartoonist Charles Schulz presented each of the three Apollo 10 astronauts with toy replicas of Snoopy, the lop-eared dog of derring-do from his comic strip "Peanuts." The hound, along with another of Schulz's characters, Charlie Brown, achieved celestial fame as the code names of the Apollo lunar module and command ship. Schulz naturally wanted to meet the astronauts who had adopted his creations; so they were introduced and exchanged gifts. Schulz received a photo of the space-traveling Snoopy making an inverted rendezvous with Charlie Brown...
...most easily observed in children under the age of six. Far less inhibited or restrained than adults, the nursery-school toddler operates largely by means of expression and gesture; talk occupies only a minimal place in his limited culture. If, for example, a four-year-old thinks his favorite toy is about to be snatched away by another child, he probably will tense his lips and scowl, thrust out his chin and then raise his hand, as if to strike the offender with an open palm. In the ethological jargon of the Birmingham investigators, the child is in a "defensive...
...original furnishings are on display -including John Kennedy's bassinet, the silver bowl and spoon he used as a child, and two of the favorite books of his boyhood: King Arthur and His Knights and Billy Whiskers, the story of a goat. There is also a toy train of the period, presented by the Museum of the City of New York...
More frequently, the tourists were greeted with suspicion, hostility and a feeling of frustration with the national and local press. Leading the travelers into a Watts toy factory, Robert Hall, co-founder of Operation Bootstrap, announced: "I've brought some big newsmen along so they can write some more about what's not going on." One Watts resident was not having any: "We're tired of being treated as news fodder," she said. "Why are you here?" Atlantic's Michael Curtis answered: "Don't you think there is some value in finding out what...
...stand, becomes "sculpture." A chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble-gum machines, wind-up phonographs, toy steam engines, pieces of farm machinery, embossed advertisements-in fact, any of the detritus of industrialism. It is wanted...