Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation somehow escaped the British press, which would almost certainly have let go a volley of criticism if the same incidents had occurred in the U.S. The Russians' reception in Canada went without comment in London last week, reported only by the Daily Express in a six-line item...
...human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could not evade, as Stapp puts it, "that one stubbornly unchanging item peeping forlornly from among the titanium rivets: man, M1, the same yesterday, today and forever; fallible, vulnerable, incurably addicted to errors, and, above all, pathetically mortal." John Paul Stapp has dedicated his life to proving that mortal man is not half so vulnerable as the engineers would have him believe...
...routine daily report of conditions aloft, the Los Angeles Weather Bureau added an item in keeping with the age: a reading of the pattern that nuclear fallout would follow in the prevailing winds. Twice daily, the bureau will release fallout bulletins. Purpose of the service: to prepare authorities to 1) regulate evacuation routes in case of an attack, and 2) give advance warning to communities along a bomb's fallout trail...
Doorly built the World-Herald by watching the paper's news coverage as closely as he watched its finances. To enforce brevity and variety, he ordered an "Item Count" every day, totting up the number of stories in each news category (i.e., local news, society, international, etc.), made the staff produce as many as 450 separate news stories a day. If a close personal friend or a big advertiser got in the way of one of the paper's local crusades, Doorly had no compunction about running him over. When he decided in 1939 that the New York...
...Boudoir. "Frank Sinatra," says an agent who wishes he had Frank's account, "is just about the hottest item in show business today." Sinatra, who in Who's Who lists himself as "baritone" by occupation, has offers of more work than he could do in 20 years, and seems pleasantly certain to pay income tax for 1955 on something close to $1,000,000. Moreover, his new success spreads like a Hoboken cargo net across almost every area of show business...