Word: item
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Having learned that "MORE" shows items further down the list, we finally arrive at item 173. Musicians' wives clearly figure prominently in their home lives, so we type in "173" to find out where to get the book...
...Waller so aptly put it, "One never knows, do one?" In this day when politicians are created like androids by consultants and pollsters, using off- the-shelf parts for everything from hairstyles to stands on particular issues to deeply held moral beliefs, it seems almost unfair that this small item from the past should gum up the works of a state-of-the-art model like the young conservative Senator from Indiana...
...cooking. The Irish Turf Board said last week that sometime this fall it aims to start selling briquettes of the material -- packed in shamrock-adorned cardboard boxes containing twelve lbs. each -- in U.S. supermarkets. Ireland's peat harvesters hope the carton of sod will be a popular souvenir item among the 44 million Americans of Irish descent. John Foley, the Turf Board's marketing manager, envisions Americans burning peat on Christmas and St. Patrick's Day. Says he: "There is a market in the U.S., but not as an everyday product." Since not everyone relishes the aroma of burning...
...urge to inject details led to some surprising provisions. In their final deliberations, the drafters added an item calling for a constitutional amendment to limit the number of consecutive terms served by members of Congress. Other passages hardly qualify as presidential: the Republicans would evict drug dealers from public-housing projects and encourage recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in all schools...
...himself at ease by telling the students, all brimming with horror stories they are encouraged to tell, "I don't want to talk about what you don't want to." This left the sandwich-room disciples speechless for a moment, each about to be deprived of some carefully prepared item of testimony. But so strong was their sense of mission that soon, despite Bush's signals of anxiety not to hear, they were topping one another with bad things that had happened to them or their siblings as a result of drugs. Bush nodded his head in obvious sympathy...