Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle has been preoccupied with France's greatness since earliest childhood. He once confided to his aides: "As a child, I loved to play at war. My brothers and I divided up our toy soldiers. Xavier had Italy. Pierre had Germany. And I, gentlemen-I always had France." Even at the lowest ebb of the war, a Free French officer who was poring over a map of occupied Europe heard the general's high, familiar voice at his shoulder: "Wasting your time, mon vieux. You'd do better studying a map of the world." Another officer...
...wrote Manhattan's famed Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick. "Praying is a practice like breathing or eating." From Pentecostal ministers roaring hallelujahs to Greek Orthodox choirs chanting the Divine Liturgy in four-part harmony, from a widow silently mourning her dead husband to a child asking for a wanted toy, the nation last week was praying...
...cereals used to come in boxes that contained nothing else, bearing a label with directions for cooking. Today, cereals hit the table ready to eat, bite-sized, sugar-toasted, cocoa-flavored or doughnut-shaped; their sales appeal is gauged less by flavor and nutrition than by the servings of toy automobiles, plastic submarines, code-message rings and baseball cards buried among the flakes or offered on the label. This week. Cereal Giant General Mills moves to serve a better after-breakfast bonus. On 45 million boxes of nine "Big G" cereals. General Mills will offer juvenile crunchers a serious...
...begins writing in script, assiduously copying such maxims as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Art and science are similar exercises in demonstration, not experiment. Instead of spontaneous sketching, the kids dutifully copy reproductions of the masters; Fuller shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics kit. Fuller prepares lunch himself-usually canned soup, fruit, bread, butter and milk. The kids say grace in Russian, eat at their desks, and return their plates (scraped) to Fuller in the kitchen. If they stick to this Spartan routine through high school, Fuller is sure, colleges will shower them...
David was also taught that excess of any kind was intolerable in a Rockefeller. Soon after his tenth birthday, he wanted a toy sailboat and took it upon himself to order one from a carpenter. When his father found out about it, he deducted the $4 cost from David's allowance over a period of months. A devout Baptist, John D. Jr. neither smoked nor drank and did everything in his power to impress upon his sons the evils of both practices. (David enjoys a martini or two before dinner, but has never taken up smoking...