Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pike caught Dr. Smith by transatlantic telephone before the conference had begun, and ordered him to erase the item from the agenda. Later proof of the laxity of British security gave Strauss ample justification for his fight. Nonetheless Lilienthal partisans were furious and still pooh-poohed the alarm...
...Super. Washington got its first atomic jolt in early September 1949, after the detection apparatus picked up indisputable evidence that the Russians had set off their first atomic explosion (now dubbed "Joe I"). The scientists had been warning all along that the U.S. monopoly was a highly perishable item, but this proved that it was even more perishable than they had thought. The evidence showed that the Russian explosion was not just an evolutionary "model T" bomb like Alamogordo. It was a plutonium bomb, demonstrating that the Russians must already have built a large atomic plant rivaling some of those...
...case you missed the item when it was printed ... the name of the (I hope) lucky man is Rudolph G. Sonneborn . . . He is tall, grey-haired and very handsome, with a beautiful speaking voice. More important, he has a wonderfully kind disposition, and is well known as a leader in humanitarian causes ... To top it all, although the head of a large oil-refining and chemical business and a director of a bank, Rudolph is a liberal Democrat! My husband ... is very modern in his attitude toward careers for women ... He reads the New York Post avidly, and considers...
...your [Aug. 10] item on Father Leonard Feeney-this is a question for him: If he holds that salvation is impossible for non-Catholics, and if he himself is no longer a Catholic because of his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church, where ... is he going...
...Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Carney was entitled to live in a huge, turreted barn at the Naval Observatory, next door to the British Embassy, but he nursed a dark suspicion that the higher-ranking Radford might grab it first. To forestall an invasion, Carney leaked a strategic news item to a society columnist, who reported that "Admiral Carney says he expects to move into the admiral's house on Observatory Hill." Ridgway told the same columnist he intended to take over the Bradley house. Having lost the ball, Radford moved in temporarily with his old friend, Marine Commandant...