Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moonlight slithered down through the cool breeze that came off the Mediterranean to toy with Pandora's the small yacht which nestled at anchor in the cove below...
...Inflexible Austerity' For six years, under the fumbling administration of Juan and Eva PerÓon, Argentina's historically rich economy has been running down like a much-abused mechanical toy. While the inner clockworks gradually fell apart, Peron's method of dealing with the problem was to shout down all warnings at the top of his voice; only three months ago he looked a group of visiting U.S. Congressmen straight in the eye and told them: "From the economic point of view, Argentina has absolutely no problems...
Conceived in the wind tunnels and laboratories of Hitler's Third Reich, the delta wing passed its early years as a kind of aeronautical curiosity, something for designers to toy with when they sketched supersonic planes of the future. Then turbojet and rocket experts began to turn out engines that had enough power to shove a man-carrying airplane up toward the speed of sound. The fantastic troubles of high-speed flight changed from drawing-board theory into tough, practical problems...
...Columbian Limited (Columbia). The record company says that this piece "can be used as realistic live background sounds for model and toy trains, or enjoyed for the pleasant excitement train sounds can give." Save for some transition dialogue by two children, and the conductor's calls, the recording is all train, chugs relentlessly for two sides...
Wandered into "New England's Largest Doll House." Doll behind counter was pouring orange juice down the mouth of one of the plastic dolls. "Then you just pull out this little pan and empty the doll, and she's ready for a refill." Made a hasty exit to the toy trains department...