Word: toye
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Lazarus sold his four Toys R Us outlets to Interstate Stores in 1966 for $7.5 million in cash, and he took over management of Interstate's toy operation. The company was overextended, though, and it went bankrupt in 1974. Yet Toys R Us stores flourished even while Interstate was going through bankruptcy, and it emerged from the court-ordered reorganization in 1978 as the surviving company. The firm's sales have nearly doubled since then to reach $597 million in the fiscal year ending last Feb. 1 , with profits coming to $28.9 million. Lazarus has opened...
Mike Reagan, aged 19, was carrying a toy life-sized M-16 weapon which police officials said yesterday he pointed at Sgt. Stephan King, a public safety officer, after King saw the weapon and said "freeze, police." Two bullets struck Reagan in the leg and upper chest and he was originally in guarded condition in the intensive care unit at Los Altos Hospital in Long beach but was reported in stable condition yesterday...
...game, which students at Harvard briefly played last year requires players to "kill" their opponents using toy guns until only one player remains...
However, Butler said the two students were simply playing a game like "hide and seek," with the toy guns and were not involved in the game of "Assassin...
Star Wars spawned a whole new breed of toy--the "action figure"--with its enormous success half a decade ago; though Raiders of the Lost Ark didn't produce much in the way of statuary, there are still plenty of little dolls from other movies littering the shelves. "I don't think we'll ever get rid of our Empire Strikes Back stuff," one despairing salewoman said as she clutched Lobot and Ugnaught...