Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better singer than tap dancer, in 1950 embarked for Italy to study, made her operatic debut (as Gilda) at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome when she was 24. On that occasion she had with her the good-luck charm she had at the Met last week-a toy cat whose beneficent influence has consistently triumphed over audiences, if not over Sparafucile...
...start four years ago making the infra-red detection system for the Sidewinder missile, which seeks out the enemy aircraft by homing in on the heat from its engines. The company also provided the detection equipment for the surveillance satellite Midas. On the commercial market Infrared Industries offers a toy walkie-talkie that uses an infra-red beam to transmit up to i.ooo ft. in the daytime...
...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...
...proprietor, Graham plans to divide his time more or less equally between Washington and New York. Newsweek's neuter approach to the news is bound to yield to Phil Graham's outspoken Democratic liberalism. And Phil Graham himself seemed like a kid with a new toy. "It may be fun and it may be agony," said he of his new venture. "But I'm glad...
When Branwell got a box of toy soldiers as a present, he and his sisters gave them individual names and then went on to weave fantasies and adventures around them that would shortly turn the rectory into a feverish, secretive writers' workshop. They dubbed themselves the Four Genii: Genius Tallii (Charlotte), Genius Emmii (Emily), Genius Annii (Anne) and Chief Genius Brannii (Branwell). The writing began when Branwell was twelve, and the first two toy-soldier games, "The Young Men's Play" and "The Islanders" (in which each child peopled an island with heroes of his own choice) fused...