Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew much of their own food" clearly shows that TIME [Oct. 3] is at least 20 years behind the times ... in expressing the moldy urban view that farm people need hardly any cash income because they are practically self-sufficient . . . Today's farmers tend to produce one main item, sometimes two or three, but no more. They buy the rest with money, and their money buys no more than anyone else...
...were letting him do. His diet became more flexible. In midweek, former Sergeant John Moaney, the President's valet, stewed up a kettle of Ike's famed two-day vegetable soup, brought it to the hospital for a lunch. Physicians permitted the addition of the first personal item to the hospital room since the President entered it. Up on a bureau, where Ike could see it, went a color picture of grandson David Eisenhower, wearing a black cowboy hat and holding a fishing...
...fellow caddy named Gene Sarazen. who also grew up to make a name for himself. At Port Chester High School, Ed won eleven major letters but got "frightening" grades in everything except English. He also landed his first newspaper job: high-school correspondent for the Port Chester Daily Item...
Like his father, Ed never made it to college. He got part-time jobs at factories, played semi-pro baseball (catcher), before finally becoming the sports editor of the Item at $12 a week. Ed next moved to the Hartford Post and at last made the grade as a Manhattan sportswriter on the New York Evening Mail, where he says he coined the phrase "Little Miss Poker Face" for Tennis Champion Helen Wills. In his early days as a reporter, Ed was frequently mistaken for a rising young actor named Humphrey Bogart, who also had high cheekbones and a deadpan...
Frye too was impressed by the friendliness of the Russian people, and his experience was even more favorable than Berman's. Of course, as an American in Central Asia be was much rarer an item than was Berman in Moscow...