Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rooms, voices cracked, tempers rose, and then, the hush. The first model. Under the hot white lights she seemed put together of plastic, not flesh; skin dead-pale, so thin that when she swallowed her body trembled with the shock, she strutted and twirled as if a newly wound toy, never perspiring, only glistening prettily. Buyers scribbled on programs: nice cut, good lines, but can it be copied easily? Will it go in Passaic? The press looked frantically for trends: everything old? Anything borrowed? How about a trend toward the old and borrowed? Customers clapped hands in delight at dresses...
...hardest. The view from the top is discouraging: the ice-slick starting slope falls away at an abrupt 35° for take-off speeds up to 60 m.p.h.. and the ambulance at the end of the landing run seems so far away that it might be a Tootsie Toy. Once a jumper starts, there is no turning back: a wobbly takeoff, a sudden updraft. a slight miscalculation can mean a bone-shattering spill -and many a star of this perilous sport admits to frequent tussles with panic...
...true: the last two letters of the first word of the title of Sloan Wilson's novel are italicized. The more than Oriental subtlety of the author's device will be recognized instantly by cryptographers, Talmudic scholars, unscramblers of step-by-step directions for assembling toy rocket launchers, and other delvers into meaning's inmost leaf. Shading his words as finely as a subdeb writing home from Miss Porter's (the prom "was marvelous but not marvelous"), Wilson makes it clear that his hero is one of life's least impressive Georges-more Porgie than...
Comedians often specialize. Some toy with national politics, others with the race problem. Rusty Warren's field is sexual intercourse...
...uniform blend of tea and to sell directly to retailers instead of to middlemen. Arthur's son Gerald, who began a 40-year reign as chairman of the company in 1912, made Brooke Bond's red delivery vans so much of a national institution that British toy stores sell miniature copies of them. Gerald also extended Brooke Bond's sources of supply far beyond Mincing Lane by building a 30,000-acre plantation empire in India, Ceylon and Africa...