Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well above 10,000 Ibs. thrust, has been in mass production since February, while the British Bristol Olympus, its closest competitor (with a 9,750-Ib. thrust), is still a collector's item. Thanks to Hobbs and his men, the U.S. can claim that the postwar supremacy of British jet-engine designers is over...
Crazy and Cool (Victor LP). An anthology of bop that contains minor frenzies by Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, the Metronome All Stars, and a strangely old-fashioned item by Gene Krupa's band. Worth the price of admission: 30 startling seconds by Charlie Ventura's virtuoso vocalists...
Razing the Roof. He still had one item of unfinished business: revenge on the bazaar merchants, 80% of whom had cooperated with the strike. (The merchants dislike Premier Zahedi's government because many of them are no longer able to connive in profitable import deals.) In reprisal, the cops had painted identifying marks on the closed shops. When the merchants arrived to unshutter their shops on the next business day, waiting troops stopped them: "You wanted to close, now stay closed." Overhead, gangs of Dadsetan's men, armed with crowbars and picks, ripped up nearly 500 feet...
There is no question that some supervision is necessary and the Employment Office has always been responsible for processing student applications to sell goods or services in University dormitories. In the first place, the item for sale must be enough of a necessity to warrant disturbing students in their own rooms. But, the student's trade must not be lured away from the Square merchants, lest the local men claim unfair competition. There is a difference, however, between supervision and control. And a wholesale policy of bringing all student operations like the doughnut men or laundry canvassers under the aegis...
Braden remembered seeing Alger Hiss's name in the report. He added an item of interest: "All that made a deep impression on me. Subsequently, I had a run-in with Hiss over Panama bases, and I could see how he was playing the Communist game...