Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department of cloaks and daggers, the HYRC, like the NKVD and OGPU, stops at nothing. The latest trick in its Saturday-thriller series was a wire recorder concealed under a pile of innocent, if dirty, laundry. The "embarrassing conversation" secretly recorded in an Eliot House room became a key item in the Young Republicans' intramural politics...
Alternative. In Kingston, Ont., the Whig-Standard ran an item in its classified section: "Refined young lady desires bachelor or small apartment...
Another and more important reason is the smaller, simpler engine. The turbojet has no propeller-a very vulnerable item. It has no delicate ignition system which a few flying chunks of steel can knock out of commission. It has fewer oil lines; it can get along, in fact, with very little lubrication. It needs no cooling system, except the air passing through it. The engine of the propeller-driven F51 has a tender pressurized cooling system with radiators and more than 20 feet of lines, and if any of these is punctured, the engine "freezes" quickly from overheating...
...that time our modest publication carried an item noting that the editors of the Harvard "Lampoon" were indicted on--and we quote--selling and distributing obscene pamphlets--disquote. The obscene pamphlet is the October issue of that hallowed humor magazine...
...baroque "Red Dragon," "Green Ivy" and "Onion" (blue & white) patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic loss ... to the sound, lively and folk-based realism of our time." Among the approved new themes: "work, sports and reconstruction." But Meissen may also continue to make an occasional fancy item for export purposes, such as the elaborate porcelain group entitled Victory of the People that it recently forwarded to the Kremlin...