Word: toying
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...Salsette's remarks about U.S. food & drink are courteous but not startlingly novel; he has some very nice things to say, however, for the complicated, charming toy, his kitchenette, and he manages to make the luxuries of a U.S. bathroom, for the first time, worthy of literature...
...costly toy of television, into which NBC and CBS have sunk millions, began to prove itself useful last week. With the delighted cooperation of the New York City Police Department, to which civilian defense has been one long headache, NBC's television experts took up the task of teaching urban air-raid wardens how to do their...
...went back to London, where by the age of seven he had built up an army of nearly 1 ,000 toy soldiers. He went to Harrow, where he once by mistake pushed a star athlete into the swimming pool, displayed typical Churchill tact in his apology. "I am very sorry," he said, "I mistook you for a Fourth Form boy. You are so small. My father, who is a great man, is also small...
...burden of the patriotic dissertation by Messrs. Beaverbrook, Truman, Willkie was the same as that written in heart's blood on countless memos on the President's toy-cluttered desk: give the war effort a single director, give that director total powers. It was the chant of industry, the roar of the press. It was what the people had wanted since June...
...which they were immemorially anchored. Deep in their earth, when they dug a well, they found ancestral shards; and Ling Tan felt that he owned not merely the boundaries of his farm but a whole column of creation, straight through the planet, and straight into those unreadable stars whose toy-like glinting made friendly a night which would otherwise have been too dark...