Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...registration was completed or still continuing, the totals foretold a bigger turnout in November than ever before-and therein lay a Republican sore point. For although figures were significantly higher for both Republicans and Democrats, the Democratic Party strength was increasing in many critical areas faster than the Republican. Item: in nominally Republican Philadelphia registration ended with 100,240 new Democratic voters, only 57,065 new Republicans; the city's G.O.P. registration lead was down from...
Running David Lawrence's item immediately following Murray Kempton's was extremely efficacious. Kempton's article, which is typical of the absurd and insubstantial material utilized as verbal bombast against Nixon, adequately proves Lawrence's contention [that the renomination of Nixon was a vindication of the Vice President over the long "whispering campaign about his lack of integrity"]. The Democrats, not unlike the Communist propagandists in their techniques of unfactual and slanderous invective against Nixon, have yet to provide evidence from which they can justify the vilification of the Vice President...
...Killing. Only a cops and robbers item, but the skulduggery is skillfully controlled by Director Stanley Kubrick (TIME, June...
...Venezuela, e.g., guarantees to refine more oil in Venezuela, bonuses of plain cash. The bidders, for the most part big foreign oil companies, have generally chosen to pay cash. The government has recently collected, or is about to collect, a cool $310 million for 720,000 acres of concessions. Item...
...assign Sister Aurelie to that emergency, or another of those devoted nuns serving under you, who have not been outside the grounds for weeks. You, Sister Luke, saw risk and excitement arid preempted this for yourself. You never thought how a sister might later enjoy clipping a little item from the newspaper (which has already telephoned me for your name) to send home to Belgium for the family scrapbook . . . Charity in action is easy to give. It has witnesses. Everyone sees it. Everyone is touched by it. Even in the world, a visible act of charity singularizes the doer, often...