Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just a small item on the back page of heaven's newspaper," says Graham modestly. But on earth he has already got enough newspaper publicity to make both Hollywood and the circus envious. Five full-length movies in which he appears, a weekly radio program, broadcast on nearly 1,000 stations, and a daily newspaper column syndicated in 99 newspapers, keep a steady stream of converts "deciding for Christ" every week. Tycoons listen to him respectfully, and grey-headed clerics sit at his feet. The humble send him gifts, and the great ones seek him out. Churchill invited...
...became filled with the complex wind and control machinery, e.g., five electric motors, coupler relays, etc. Besides the ordinary stops, Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console, a $35,000 item that contained 1,622 parts, including 757 stop keys, 218 combinations and 248 miscellaneous gadgets (e.g., a toe-touch stud that brings on a soft stop with one kick, adds a louder one with the second and turns both off with the third...
Collector's Item. In Willowick, Ohio, Marianne Baucco, 30, accusing Dentist Lawrence Davis of assault and battery, charged that he forced her to his office floor, removed an upper denture for which she still owed...
...slugged RTF (receiver to pay). So I had to pay the cable tolls on the message. The next day I billed TIME, not for my services, just for the cable tolls that I had paid. I heard nothing more about it; except that later I did read a brief item in TIME based on my material (TIME, July...
...Secretary had one item of real progress in his report: President Eisenhower's plan for a world atomic bank for peace was nearing fulfillment, even though the Soviet Union had rejected it.* As the next step, Dulles proposed a four-point agenda for 1955, with or without Red cooperation: 1) creation of an international atomic agency, 2) calling an international scientific conference to dis cuss the atom as an agent for peace, 3) opening of a reactor training school in the U.S. to teach students from abroad the working principles of atomic energy, and 4) an invitation to foreign...