Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit Bureau Chief Fred Collins told of one story that began when he was leafing through a University of Michigan bulletin. He noticed a short item about a professor just back from an archeological expedition to the Middle East. An interview resulted in the story about the Urartu language stone (TIME...
...Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words...
...pleased for you to forward to the proper quarters. I would like to make it quite clear that the movement proposed by me should in no way be construed as an attempt to whitewash Hungary. Its only meaning is to enable Uncle Sam to write off this bad-smelling item in his books . . . PAUL DE GYARMATHY Stateless ex-Hungarian Kobe, Japan...
...Your Feb. 4 item on the new security classification, "cosmic," created by NATO, implies that this is the first use of a classification higher than top-secret . . . Early in 1944, Allied Force HQ in Algiers began planning for the invasion of southern France that year; the code word "BIGOT" was assigned as the security classification if or those matters which were "even more secret than top-secret." In fact, "BIGOT Y" card holders were authorized to see papers which personnel assigned "BIGOT X" cards could not-which placed "BIGOT Y" two security classifications above mere top-secret. Despite these precautions...
...have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping at Sears for more Maidenform bras"). Most expensive item: diamonds (up to $1,795) -on the cheaper rings, "magic reflector settings make diamonds seem larger...