Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most ingenious use of an old mathematical toy is the endless variety of "cross number puzzles" in the workbooks of Robert W. Wirtz and Morton Botel, which give the child a couple of number clues (here printed in red) and thus prod him to hot pursuit of sums and products (in black) that illuminate the relationship of addition and multiplication...
...style of the divers episodes is semi-realistic. On the whole, props are merely implied. Only a few crucial ones, which stand out in Quentin's memory with special vividness, are actually visible--a toy boat, a bed sheet and Maggie's pill bottle, for instance...
...world," Manhattan learned this week that there are not one but two still taller structures in its future. Soon to rise is a twin-towered World Trade Center, each pinnacle 110 stories high, that will make the city's familiar pointy downtown skyline look like a toy village...
...door was posted a thin, erect policeman, looking like one of the tin soldiers off the toy shelf. He munched on a donut as he serenely contemplated the war of all against...
...purchases were made by phone or by friends, and on Christmas morning all was ready. Spying his gifts beneath a 12-ft. tree, John-John tore into them without further ceremony, and the room was soon abuzz and awhir with the sounds of a helicopter, some airplanes and a toy boat. Somewhat more sedately, Caroline opened presents described by a family friend as "girl's toys," plus a bright red fire engine from Lucy Baines Johnson. From King Hassan of Morocco, whom she visited in October, Jackie accepted a century-old stone house in Marrakech, complete with servants...