Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, the popular American weekly, dedicated this week 67 lines to the Hakhel ceremonies in Jerusalem. In their same issue there is an item of only 40 lines, on the Foreign Ministry bomb. In the Israel press the proportion was inverse. It appears that the foreign press can better appreciate what is eternal and constant in a nation's life than what is passable...
...their error. For years now, income from the School's small and static endowment has failed by around $25,000 annually to cover the cost of religious instruction, and the Corporation has sweat blood over that. Unallocated funds, which the Corporation uses to cover this deficit, are the scarcest item in modern education, and the Governing Board cannot afford to spend them on anything but the most vital needs. Graduate schools ordinarily do not qualify. As a matter of policy they must muster their own funds, pay their...
...Mine, starring Mario Lanza. The new black & white "magpie" evening gown, which the Queen wore for the occasion, turned out to be a star attraction too. Three days later, West End department stores reported that a copy of the Queen's gown (price: $27) was a sellout item...
...Went to Your Wedding (Patti Page; Mercury). The sight of a man coming down the aisle "wearing a smile" makes his old girl bust into tears; unquestionably the weepiest item since...
...druthers" would still be there-and sincerely wish someone would write about the other 7½ million or so people who live there who don't possess an oil well, a 100,000-or-more-acre ranch or a fabulous hotel. Not that I begrudge the latter one item of what they have. More power to them...