Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon pupils are confronted with rhymes (cat, fat, bat, etc.) and lists of words beginning with the same consonant. Thev might also be asked to pick out from a series of words (boy, toy, boy, dog, box) the two that are alike. They learn other words by how they are used in a sentence (e.g., milk, from "The cat drinks milk") are encouraged to look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. Prefixes and suffixes, vowels and diphthongs, combination words such as oatmeal and airplane are all taught in their place...
...section of St. Albans, L.I. He tends the backyard rose garden himself, officiates at the outdoor barbecue, is never too busy on afternoons at home to play catch with his three boys. Indoors, the large house is cramped with Campy's hobbies. A vast and valuable collection of toy trains clutters the attic; an entire wall of the basement den is covered with carefully tended aquariums of expensive tropical fish. Once the conversation swings around to the bright little creatures, Campy actively resents a change of topic -even to baseball...
...decorated the city, and there seemed something symbolic about their action. But Ike Eisenhower, undaunted, went on injecting human relations into international relations. Never had the U.S. had a finer ambassador. He broke through the security cordon around him, and, to the delight of passersby, plunged unheralded into a toy store "to buy something for my kids"-meaning his three grandchildren. Rejecting some boy dolls ("My little girls don't want boy dolls"), he picked three girl dolls, plus a model glider for young David, plunged out of the store gesturing at his military aide and saying: "He pays...
...Whom the Bell Tolls. In Manhattan, Milwaukee Toy Merchant Frederick G. Osborne Jr. sued the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for $500,000, declared that he had lost that amount when he failed to keep a business appointment because the desk clerk failed to call him at 9 a.m. as he had requested...
...Navy in the summer of 1953, Cincinnati's Tony Trabert was just one more crew-cut amateur tennis player. Two months later, his big serve and sharp volleys were unbeatable, and at Forest Hills he won the U.S. Singles championship in a breeze. Tony immediately began to toy with a couple of big ideas: now, maybe, he could afford to get married; now, if he could go on to add a Wimbledon title to his U.S. championship, he would be eligible for one of those fat pro contracts...