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Word: toye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still a game of toy boats played by millionaires. But no single millionaire, no superstar skipper, can dominate alone. "You have to delegate," says Whidden. "This is a team sport and not a single man's quest for victory." He believes Conner's greatest growth since 1983 has been in his ability to get good people and allow himself to rely on them. Will his team win? Or will Parry and Murray's Kookaburra mates refuse to yield the Cup? As the racing began, most experts favored Conner, but Australian Skipper John Bertrand, who won the Cup in 1983, loyally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The America's Cup: Auld Mug's Game | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Three phones were constantly ringing, two dogs were underfoot, and one two- year-old son was scooting around the toy-strewn rooms of Oliver Stone's French country-style Santa Monica house. The writer-director, who seems capable of doing several things at once, was able to talk to TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell about his pre-Platoon movies and that peculiar state of mind called Hollywood. His comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver Stone: My Brilliant Career | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...been leading eerily similar lives. Separated four weeks after birth in 1940, the Jim twins grew up 45 miles apart in Ohio and were reunited in 1979. Eventually they discovered that both drove the same model blue Chevrolet, chain-smoked Salems, chewed their fingernails and owned dogs named Toy. Each had spent a good deal of time vacationing at the same three-block strip of beach in Florida. More important, when tested for such personality traits as flexibility, self-control and sociability, the twins responded almost exactly alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Exploring The Traits of Twins | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...nation's best-selling toy, but for kids serious about their shooting, Lazer Tag is the game to get. Out only three months and already No. 5 on the Toy Hit Parade, it is the hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...Just make sure you save a few for Learning-Window, a computer introduction toy that offers 13 different activities as well as a voice module and three additional cartridges. It is meant for children ages six and older, but parents will also be intrigued with the variety of math, language and spelling games, including Hangman and Deduction. The grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: O.K., Santa, Make My Day | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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