Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...item of darkening news was the March rate of industrial production. It dropped a point on the 1947-49 index to 165, and a point on the Federal Reserve Board's new index, from 110 to 109. But against this could be set another indicator suggesting a pickup in business. Reversing a downward spiral that started in early March, the average interest rate on the Treasury's issue of $1.1 billion in 91-day bills jumped by nearly a point to 3.622%, indicating that money is once again tightening up as business rolls forward...
High Living. In Kalamazoo, Mich., when Richard M. Horn was fined $10 plus $4.30 in court costs for filching a 75? item from a grocery, he pulled out four $100 bills, demanded that one of them be changed, explained that he never carried small stuff around with...
...British-born New Yorker Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan ("Americans tend to judge a regime on the extent to which it likes America"). In a seven-column, $4,725 ad in the New York Times, the Fair Players charged that the U.S. press is deliberately distorting the news from Cuba. Item: press reports of Communism in the Castro government are "consistently used to create a smoke screen behind which the social objectives of the Cuban revolution can be attacked and sabotaged...
...Item: a large, flaking Jackson Pollock abstraction, for which Hale paid a reputed $32,000 in 1957, recently brought a $75,000 offer from the dealer who sold it, might bring $100,000 in the open market...
Obviously affected by Miller's "Tropics," Durrell erupted with a steamy item called The Black Book, still regarded as too obscene" to be published in Britain jr America. When his disciple's novel cached Miller, that dithyrambic daddy f all unshy pornographers effused: 'Down with Shakespeare! Down with Jhaucer! I greet Lawrence Durrell as the first Englishman." Even that cool sage, T. S. Eliot, bobbed approval. For Durrell he effect was tonic, "like suddenly hear-ng your own tone of voice...