Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tick. The bomb may go off at any minute. Much depends on the general patience of the U.S. people. For soon the whole U.S. will have to listen to about as much Southern oratory on the race question as anyone can reasonably endure. For of all things, the first item of business scheduled to come up before the returning Congress is the Marcantonio anti-poll-tax bill...
...Item: Secretary Ickes' announcement of the U.S. pipeline in Arabia, with no preliminary warning to the British-who have a more-than-somewhat interest in Middle East...
...Item: the President's encouragement of the Zionists-to the dismay not only of Britain but of seven Arab states. The M.P.s failed to note that the President's actions last week were quite different from his talk...
Last week G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself added a lurid footnote to the shoe shortage: shoes, he said, were the third biggest item in a mounting flood of hijacking. (The first two: liquor and rayon...
News is the G.I.s' favorite radio item-and they get plenty of it. There are no commentators, experts, keyholers, just the cold facts. The Germans, for instance, do not "counterattack," they "advance." Says Baruch: "You can't eyewash the boys or smooth anything over; they're too close...