Word: toying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meet Grinby, Boingo, GeeGee, Slats, T.K. and Scopes, cousins of the popular Koosh Ball toy -- a "cross between a porcupine and a bowl of Jell-O" that goes "koosh" when you catch...
Smith said he knew one Southern trial judge who keeps in his chambers a miniature Black man sitting in a "toy" electric chair which he periodically buzzes...
...looks like a 9-in. cloth-covered ruler, but a quick downward flick will send it curling around your wrist. And before you can say Slap Wrap, you are wearing the newest preteen craze. The bracelet's manufacturer, Connecticut- based Main Street Toy, sells nearly 500,000 a week (retail price...
Consumer officials in Connecticut urged retailers to recall a cheap knock- off of the toy last month after the imitation's sharp edges cut a four- year-old girl. The real Slap Wrap, which carries its name on the bracelet, was excluded from the warning. This snappy fad is making some kids downright slaphappy...
...case, because women's prisons, like those for men, are often all but inaccessible by public transportation. When children do manage to get there, the sessions can be heartrending. Some facilities, including the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution at Hardwick, where Rachals is housed, have created bright, toy-filled visiting rooms, but more often the quarters are grim and frightening. In Chicago's Cook County jail, a thick glass pane separates family visitors from prisoners. "It's a terrifying thing for a child to reach out and try to touch his mother, and find out he can't," says Gail...