Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives and had never before hunted for a job. Testing by the Indiana Employment Security Division showed that more than a tenth of the men had forgotten-or never knew-how to read and write with any skill. One cook, for example, had memorized the first letter of each item on the menu, and thus hid his illiteracy; his downfall came when the boss ordered him to get some wine and he could not read the labels. The first step, for many, had to be elementary schooling...
Whatever the Lodgemen decide, Rockefeller could tuck at least one item of unexpected aid away in his California campaign kit. In the wake of the Oregon returns, Otis Chandler's powerful Los Angeles Times announced that it would throw its support to Rockefeller...
...Anyone in the tire business who is genuinely concerned with safety will agree with the general point you conveyed, i. e., beware of cheapies. A consumer reading this item gets the strong implication that all "name brand" tires provide satisfactory performance, while all private brands are built to "less demanding specifications." Actually, this is not the case. While your article has done a service in steering consumers away from unsafe tires, it has done a great disservice to the private brands that sincerely strive to provide an equal or superior tire when compared to the majors...
After that trip, I've sailed on deck, with what is usually considered a better class of people. It might be profitable to explain ship (union) politics, or the sickness of the shipping industry, or what one actually does on a watch. (For the last item, as an ordinary seaman: 4 hours lookout, 2 hours standby and general labor, and perhaps 2 hours wheel-watch). But I'm seeking what is specific to the summertime sailor's experience; of which an infuriating helpless sympathy is a large part. They condemn you and your innocence, and still worship your education; Beretta...
...page 66 one morning last week, had switched its $11 million Bufferin account from one ad agency to another. The Bufferin switch was also immured, on the same day and in nearly identical construction, by Columnist Joseph Kaselow of the New York Herald Tribune. Eventually, the Bristol-Myers item made two afternoon Manhattan papers and flashed crosscountry to be interred in those posterior reaches of the daily press where the average reader seldom if ever ventures...