Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities of the U.S. had either been destroyed or so badly damaged that the populations were fleeing . . . There was. as I saw it, no recourse except to take charge instantly." The President, an old hand in giving realism to peacetime training maneuvers, took charge by issuing his proclamation, an item not foreseen by the test planners...
...Eisenhower had been busily arranging the interior, putting up pictures, sorting out souvenirs, and shopping. Hatless and wearing a cotton print, she went to Sears. Roebuck in Chambersburg, Pa. to buy one kitchen item: a hand eggbeater...
WASHINGTON'S National Gallery, which will be 15 years old next March, is already deep in plans for its birthday celebration. Main item on the agenda: unveiling 150 masterpieces from the Samuel H. Kress collection. As an indication of the superb quality of the new Kress donations, the gallery this week made public the names of six (see color pages). Each was a masterpiece in the proper sense of the word: clear and present evidence of the artist's genius crossed with the spirit...
...been taken into the Russian camp. A communiqué was issued, announcing "a wide measure of agreement between the four Governments" (U.S., Britain, France and Yugoslavia). Within an hour after the ambassadors and Tito had basked together at a final lunch, the Yugoslav government announced an item that Tito had neglected to impart to his luncheon companions: he had just accepted Khrushchev's invitation to visit Moscow...
Because there are (and have been for many years) great differences in smoking practices among the several countries, researchers have a hard time relating Dr. Pascua's figures directly to the cigarette habit. Item: the U.S., with many of the heaviest cigarette smokers, had the eighth highest attack rate but the second lowest rate of increase. (Possible reason: the U.S. may have passed its period of sharpest increase before the 1948-52 period.) Says Copenhagen's Dr. Johannes Clemmesen, noting that Denmark's four-year increase in lung cancer among males was 49%: "The higher a country...