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Word: toye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever the reason for their popularity, the guns has become not only the fastest selling toy but also the most controversial...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Super Soaker Squirt Weapon Spurs Boston Controversy | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...just a water gun? Wasn't Murphy Brown just a TV show? Maybe a harmless entertainment is being blamed for unrelated social problems. Greg Miller, media relations specialist for Child World toy stores, certainly thinks...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Super Soaker Squirt Weapon Spurs Boston Controversy | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...sympathize with. Catwoman isn't a villain, and she isn't Wonder Woman fighting for the greater good of society. That has no meaning for a lonely, lowly, harassed secretary toiling away in the depths of Gotham City. But she does have her own agenda. She's nobody's toy. She's a wild card -- the movie's independent variable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...Harlem hospital with a real 9-mm bullet lodged in his back. The new generation of water weapons, with their bulbous tanks and high-pressure air pumps, splash so hard, squirt so far and are so wildly popular (Larami's Super Soaker is the fastest-selling summer toy in the U.S. for the second year in a row) that some public officials fear the summer may be not just long and hot, but dangerously wet as well, if angry soakees shoot back with live ammunition. The mayor of Boston, reacting to a soaking and shooting that left a 15-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squirt, Squirt, You're Dead | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...politicians seem to be aiming in the wrong direction. As a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes clear, the problem is not toy guns but real guns. Gunshot wounds are now the second leading cause of death among high school-age children in the U.S., and are rising at a faster rate than any other cause, a situation the Journal characterized as a public health epidemic. Yet the Brady gun-control bill, part of the crime package the Bush Administration opposes, is languishing in the U.S. Senate. And what few laws have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Squirt, Squirt, You're Dead | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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